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

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

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


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