Is there a generator for jasmine angular controller tests?

Question

I'm looking for something that generates a boilerplate jasmine test for an angular controller. It seems you could pull the dependencies for the controller out and drop them into the spec and save some typing. I would be shocked if I were the first person to have this idea but I'm unable to find anything that does this, save a yeomen project that doesn't appear to work.

Answer 1

I've recently published my version of Angular JS unit test generator on npm - tleaf. Basically it tries to parse you source file looking for AngularJS units (controllers, services, etc) to extract information about unit name, module name and unit's dependencies. This information is used to create a unit test file, based on a template for this unit type. There is a default set of templates which have a pretty simple structure, it should be ok for general use. But it is also possible to create and use your own templates to generate unit test files. This is a very first version and I'll be happy to have any feedback.

Answer 2

I don't know of a generator for tests but I have two ideas.

Some editors provide templates for "repeated" code. Like Live Templates for Webstorm. There are multiple projects on github providing jasmine templates for it.

You could also check ng-describe. It removes the boilerplate and makes testing simpler. Here's an example form their github:

ngDescribe({
  modules: 'A',
  inject: ['$rootScope', 'foo'],
  tests: function (deps) {
    it('finally a test', function () {
      deps.$rootScope.$apply();
      expect(deps.foo).toEqual('bar');
    });
  }
});