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

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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?

Try this as well https://github.com/jasmine-contrib/grunt-jasmine-node — Dalorzo, Jan 27 '14 at 22:23

score 95 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 03 '16 at 12:58

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This should get you going quickly:

install Node.js (obviously).
Next install Jasmine. Open a command prompt and run:

npm install -g jasmine
Next, cd to any directory and set up an example 'project':

jasmine init
jasmine examples
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:

edited Jun 03 '16 at 12:58

Bruno Brant

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answered Apr 14 '15 at 23:16

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This info should definitely be more prominently included on the jasmine homepage. At the moment you only find out if you go to the github project. – Daniel Earwicker Mar 06 '16 at 15:54
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Doing exactly this on a blank "npm init" project still yields no results for me. – Richard Løvehjerte Sep 01 '16 at 12:16
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This produces no output whatsoever. – Stefano Borini Sep 06 '16 at 22:33
I think that last link wants to point here now: https://jasmine.github.io/setup/nodejs.html – ruffin May 12 '22 at 16:25

KeepCalmAndCarryOn · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-05T21:57:11.953

EDIT

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

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

To those arriving via google: `jasmine-node` has had no new commits since 2014, only runs jasmine 1.3, and appears to have been abandoned. The official `jasmine` CLI in user64141's answer below is more up to date. — ReactiveRaven, May 10 '16 at 23:56
Avoid installing NPM packages with `sudo`. Only when really necessary, happens rarely. — Segers-Ian, Oct 19 '16 at 18:30

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 22 '19 at 08:46

The easiest way is to run the command in your project root:

$ npx humile

It founds all your specs which name ends with .spec.js.

If you think humile is fine for your project, just install it as dev dependency. It speeds up the command.

$ npm install -D humile

score -9 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 09:49

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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

answered Mar 19 '14 at 09:49

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Karma doesn't run the tests in Node. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16660670/how-to-test-nodejs-backend-code-with-karma-testacular. – mik01aj Mar 13 '15 at 11:23

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