Unit testing custom $animate animations in karma - angularjs

Question

I'm trying to run a unit test that tests a custom addClass animation. No matter what I try, including running samples off the web, do custom animations run in the karma test runner. NOTE my animation code works fine in a working site. I just want to be able to generate jasmine tests for my animations.
module.exports = function(config) {
config.set({
basePath: '',
frameworks: ['jasmine'],
files: [
'Scripts\\angular.js',
'Scripts\\angular-animate.js',
'Scripts\\angular-mocks.js',
'Scripts\\animate-scr.js',
'Scripts\\animate-test.js',
],
exclude: [
],
reporters: ['progress'],
port: 9875,
colors: true,
logLevel: config.LOG_INFO,
autoWatch: true,
browsers: ['Chrome'],
captureTimeout: 60000,
singleRun: false
});
};
Here is my source code for the animation.
var counter = 0;
var testapp = angular.module('testapp', ['ngAnimate']);
testapp.counter = 2;
testapp.animation('.footeropen', function() {
return {
addClass : function(element, className) {
testapp.counter = 3;
}
};
});
And here is my unit tests code
describe('Testing Animations', function() {
beforeEach(module('testapp'));
beforeEach(module('mock.animate'));
it("should synchronously test the animation",
inject(function($animate, $rootScope) {
var element = angular.element('<div>hello</div>');
$animate.addClass(element, 'footeropen');
$rootScope.$digest();
expect(testapp.counter).toBe(3);
}));
});

Answer 1

Its with disappointment that I discovered that the mocked animate object actively stops custom animations on addClass() and removeClass(). The exact comment in the code is:
//There is no point in perform a class-based animation if the element already contains
//(on addClass) or doesn't contain (on removeClass) the className being animated.
//The reason why this is being called after the previous animations are cancelled
//is so that the CSS classes present on the element can be properly examined.
I have looked at running it without the mocked animate object and this causes a similar response.
So testing at this point is not possible.