Creating a Karma compliant test harness for the browser

[Alexander Mills]

Hey all 

I put this issue on the Karma issue tracker

https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/issues/2850

but I think this topic is better for this Google Group.

I am writing an improved test runner, primarily for backend testing, but from the beginning it was designed to also run in the browser.

I can get it running in the browser with Webpack.

Anyway, it looks like what I need to do is something similar to these:

https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-jasmine
https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-mocha

so I would have to write:

https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-suman  # does not exist yet :)

does anyone have any advice or feedback on this?

Would Karma accept a new adaptor repo for Suman?

Thanks

-alex

[Alexander Mills]

A practical up-front question:

In the karma.conf.js file for a new Angular2 project, I see:

frameworks: ['jasmine', '@angular/cli'],   // A
plugins: [ 
  require('karma-jasmine'),                // B 
  require('karma-chrome-launcher'),
  require('karma-jasmine-html-reporter'),
  require('karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter'),
  require('@angular/cli/plugins/karma')
],

what is the difference between using  'jasmine' on line A

and using 'karma-jasmine' on line B?

-alex

[Alexander Mills]

Ok I have made some progress on this - one thing I don't understand is how Karma knows that the tests are complete and how it knows whether the process should exit with code 0 or not.