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Created August 28, 2016 17:13 — forked from nackjicholson/unit-test-angularjs-grunt-karma-travis.md
Unit Testing with AngularJs, Grunt, Karma, and TravisCI

If you've done much reading about angularjs you've no doubt come across mention of karma, a test runner recommended especially for use with angularjs applications. The [angular-seed][1] project is a great way to get started with the basics of angular testing using karma, but for projects of any significant size you will soon hit the cieling in terms of organizational complexity. What I want to share in this article is the approach I have taken using [Grunt][2] and the [grunt-karma][3] plugin to sustainably manage my projects' client side unit tests and run them via [TravisCI][4]. I plan to write another entry about how to approach the actual minutia of unit testing angular code in the near future.

Karma, configuration for tests

Karma is really nothing more than a set of centralized configuration that builds a test runner for you. The advantage being that it allows you to easily execute tests in a headless browser, and output to the command line. As someone who has actually set all of that up from scratc