AngularJS + Testacular / Jasmine unit tests: Executed 0 of 0 SUCCESS

Question

I am trying to write unit tests for an AngularJS project. The project is based on angular-seed and uses Testacular to run tests. Every attempt to run test.sh script always ends up with "Executed 0 of 0 SUCCESS".

I tried this super-simple "test":

describe('Testing Jasmine', function() {
  console.log('describe');
  var test = 'test';

  it('should be test', function() {
    console.log('it');
    expect(test).toEqual('test');
  });
});

The result is that only 'describe' is logged, the 'it' part is skipped. When I try the same thing on clean angular-seed clone everything works - so I assume that the testing system itself with Testacular and Jasmine is working correctly. Our project is based on Rails, but the clean angular-seed that I was testing for comparison is running on Apache so I thought that this might be the difference - messed up paths or something in that Rails project.

But there are no error messages, e2e tests work... and also I assume that if some files were missing or paths were incorrect it would not be able to log that 'describe' in tests - if I understand correctly this means that Jasmine is processing the right file (there are no other dependencies in this pseudo-test). How is it possible that the 'describe' part works just fine and only 'it' part seems to be skipped?

Any hint or help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you are doing unit tests, do not include the angular-scenario.js file in your testacular config file. That will break the unit tests.

Answer 2

e2e testing in testacular has a long way to go. I struggled with this for a while. It turns out that the left side of an expect must be one of the methods defined in the angular documentation: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.e2e-testing.

the following is an example

describe('Testing Jasmine', function() {

  it('should be test', function() {
    expect(element('foo').count()).toEqual(1);
  });

});

Remember, if you dont enter in one of the prescribed method calls into the expect, testacular will not run the 'it'