How to run Jasmine tests on Node.js from command l

Question

How do I run Jasmine tests on Node.js from command line? I have installed jasmine-node via npm and written some tests. I want to run tests inside the spec directory and get results in the terminal, is this possible?

Answer 1

This should get you going quickly:

1. install Node.js (obviously).

2. Next install Jasmine. Open a command prompt and run:

   npm install -g jasmine

3. Next, cd to any directory and set up an example 'project':

   jasmine init
jasmine examples

4. Now run your unit tests:

   jasmine

If your jasmine.json file is somewhere else besides spec/support/jasmine.json, simply run:

jasmine JASMINE_CONFIG_PATH=relative/path/to/your/jasmine.json

For more info see:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/jasmine
• http://jasmine.github.io/2.2/node.html

Answer 2

Try Karma (formerly Testacular), it is a testing library agnostic test runner done by Angular.js team

http://karma-runner.github.io/0.12/index.html

Jasmine support is well baked.

http://karma-runner.github.io/0.12/intro/how-it-works.html

Answer 3

EDIT

It seems this is no longer the current best answer as the package is unmaintained. Please see the answer below

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You can do this

from your test directory

sudo npm install jasmine-node

This installs jasmine into ../node_modules/jasmine-node

then

../node_modules/jasmine-node/bin/jasmine-node --verbose --junitreport --noColor spec

which from my demo does this

Player - 5 ms
    should be able to play a Song - 2 ms

    when song has been paused - 1 ms
        should indicate that the song is currently paused - 0 ms
        should be possible to resume - 0 ms
    tells the current song if the user has made it a favorite - 1 ms

    #resume - 0 ms
        should throw an exception if song is already playing - 0 ms

Player - 5 ms
    should be able to play a Song - 2 ms

    when song has been paused - 1 ms
        should indicate that the song is currently paused - 0 ms
        should be possible to resume - 0 ms
    tells the current song if the user has made it a favorite - 1 ms

    #resume - 0 ms
        should throw an exception if song is already playing - 0 ms

Finished in 0.01 seconds
5 tests, 8 assertions, 0 failures, 0 skipped