Cannot make controller tests working with AngularJS + RequireJS - angularjs

Question

Can’t figure out how to make controller tests working. I am playing with ngStart seed project. So I forked the repository (https://github.com/Havrl/ngStart ) and want to create a very basic unit test.
My controller test file:
define(function() {
"use strict";
describe("the contactcontroller", function () {
var contactController, scope;
beforeEach(function () {
module("contact");
inject(["ContactController", function (_contactController) {
contactController = _contactController;
}]);
});
it("should give me true", function () {
expect(true).toBe(true);
});
});
});
But that is not working.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

as answered in the following question the controller needs to be manually instantiated with a new scope:
how to test controllers created with angular.module().controller() in Angular.js using Mocha
Additionally the project you are using (its mine :-) ) is defining the controllers inside route definitions and not with a call to angular.controller(...).
The downside is that the controllers are not known by name to angularJS (afaik), so the code from the answer above would not work:
ctrl = $controller("ContactController", {$scope: scope });
Instead you have to load the controller explicitely with requireJS inside your test file and give the function to the $controller(..) call, like this:
define(["ContactController"], function(ContactController) {
"use strict";
describe("the contactcontroller", function () {
var contactController, scope;
beforeEach(function () {
module("contact");
inject(["$rootScope", "$controller", function ($rootScope, $controller) {
scope = $rootScope.$new();
contactController = $controller(ContactController, {$scope: scope});
}]);
});
....
});