Karma not executing my tests with require

[TKTheTechie]

Hi,
I've begun writing tests for my app and for some reason, karma refuses to execute them. I know for sure that the tests are loaded because when I make a syntax error, karma reports it but it doesn't fail/pass the tests that I specified.

'use strict';
require(['angular', 'app'], function (angular, myApp) {
    beforeEach(angular.module('myApp'));
    describe('angular test', function () {
        it('works for angular', function () {
            // just checking that angular works
            var mccModule = angular.module('myApp');
            expect(mccModule).to.equal(null); //should fail but doesn't

        });
    });

    describe('subjectmodel sevice test', function () {
        it('should contain a subjectmodel service', inject(function (subjectModel) {
            expect(subjectModel).not.to.equal(null);
        }));
    });

});

Karma gives the following output -
PhantomJS 1.9 (Windows) LOG: '/base/test/webapp/unit/myTest.js'
PhantomJS 1.9 (Windows): Executed 0 of 0 SUCCESS (1.175 secs / 0 secs)

The log statement is from my test-main.js

for (var file in window.__karma__.files) {
    if (/Test\.js$/.test(file)) {
        tests.push(file);
        console.log(file);
    }
}

[vojtajina]

What is your config file look like ?
Can you open http://localhost:9876/debug.html and check out the web inspector console ? Is there any error ?

[vojtajina]

Closing this, as I assume it's duplicate of #600 - if you have any more questions, you can ask on mailing list groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/karma-users

[TKTheTechie]

Hi Vojta,

No it wasn't a duplicate. I figured it out and it seems that all tests need to use define(...) instead of require(...) otherwise they won't run. I still don't quite understand why... could you explain?

[vojtajina]

See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9507606/when-to-use-require-and-when-to-use-define

I think when you use "require" you can't load that file as a dependency,
which is what you need to do in your test-main.js

If you used "require" you would have to include these files directly (not
ask require.js to load them), however then, you don't know, when require is
done with loading these files (and its deps) and therefore you don't know,
when to start the test run (if you start jasmine/mocha before require
finished loading, jasmine will ignore the tests that are not loaded yet, as
they get registered too late).

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 6:15 AM, PocketDealHunter
notifications@github.comwrote:

Hi Vojta,

No it wasn't a duplicate. I figured it out and it seems that all tests
need to use define(...) instead of require(...) otherwise they won't run. I
still don't quite understand why... could you explain?

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