Unit testing the AngularJS $window service

Question

I would like to unit test the following AngularJs service:

.factory('httpResponseInterceptor', ['$q', '$location', '$window', 'CONTEXT_PATH', function($q, $location, $window, contextPath){
     return {
         response : function (response) {
             //Will only be called for HTTP up to 300
             return response;
         },
         responseError: function (rejection) {
             if(rejection.status === 405 || rejection.status === 401) {
                 $window.location.href = contextPath + '/signin';
             }
             return $q.reject(rejection);
         }
     };
}]);

I have tried with the following suite:

describe('Controllers', function () {
    var $scope, ctrl;
    beforeEach(module('curriculumModule'));
    beforeEach(module('curriculumControllerModule'));
    beforeEach(module('curriculumServiceModule'));
    beforeEach(module(function($provide) {
       $provide.constant('CONTEXT_PATH', 'bignibou'); // override contextPath here
    }));
    describe('CreateCurriculumCtrl', function () {
        var mockBackend, location, _window;
        beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $controller, $httpBackend, $location, $window) {
            mockBackend = $httpBackend;
            location = $location;
            _window = $window;
            $scope = $rootScope.$new();
            ctrl = $controller('CreateCurriculumCtrl', {
                $scope: $scope
            });
        }));

        it('should redirect to /signin if 401 or 405', function () {
            mockBackend.whenGET('bignibou/utils/findLanguagesByLanguageStartingWith.json?language=fran').respond([{"description":"Français","id":46,"version":0}]);
            mockBackend.whenPOST('bignibou/curriculum/new').respond(function(method, url, data, headers){
                return [401];
            });
            $scope.saveCurriculum();
            mockBackend.flush();
            expect(_window.location.href).toEqual("/bignibou/signin");
        });


    });
});

However, it fails with the following error message:

PhantomJS 1.9.2 (Linux) Controllers CreateCurriculumCtrl should redirect to /signin if 401 or 405 FAILED
    Expected 'http://localhost:9876/context.html' to equal '/bignibou/signin'.
PhantomJS 1.9.2 (Linux) ERROR
    Some of your tests did a full page reload!

I am not sure what is going wrong and why. Can anyone please help?

I just want to ensure the $window.location.href is equal to '/bignibou/signin'.

edit 1:

I managed to get it to work as follows (thanks to "dskh"):

 beforeEach(module('config', function($provide){
      $provide.value('$window', {location:{href:'dummy'}});
 }));

Answer 1

You can inject stub dependencies when you load in your module:

angular.mock.module('curriculumModule', function($provide){
            $provide.value('$window', {location:{href:'dummy'}});
        });

Answer 2

To get this to work for me I had to make a minor adjustment. It would error out and say:

TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating '$window.navigator.userAgent')

So I added the navigator.userAgent object to get it to work for me.

$provide.value('$window', {
  location:{
    href:'dummy'
  },
  navigator:{
    userAgent:{}
  }
});