Installing and Running Karma

Installing Karma

• Install Karma Globally and initialize it's configuration file:

$ npm install karma -g
-> Enter "Jasmine" for your testing framework
-> Enter "no" to the requireJS prompt
-> Enter "Chrome" for browser
-> At the watch all files prompt, type "yes"

Install Karma CLI

• Use the command below to install Karma so that it can be accessed on the command line.

npm install -g karma-cli

Initializing Karma

$ karma init

• with this installation, 2 additional dependencies are installed:
• karma-chrome-launcher
• karma-jasmine
• You can ensure that these packages were installed by checking their version

$ karma-chrome-launcher --version
$ karma-jasmine --version

If they are not installed for some reason, you can install them with:

npm install karma-chrome-launcher -g

Get Karma Version

$ karma -–version

Customizing Karma Configuration

• Edit the karma.conf file. This should be at the root of your application
• To use Jasmine and Chrome, the configuration file should be set to:

frameworks: ['jasmine'],
browsers: ['Chrome'],

• Configure a Test directory
• This will configure the directory for our tests in /test/unit

files: [
'test/unit/**/*.js'
],

Runing Karma

• Run Karma using the following command

karma start

Karma Launchers

• Here is a list of karma launchers