Tests in AngularJS: Reference error of the inject function

Question

I try to test the code below:

describe('myService test', function () {
    describe('when I call myService.one', function () {
        beforeEach(angular.module('TargetMarketServices'));
        it('returns 1', inject(function (imagesRepository) {
            expect(true).toEqual(true);
        }));

    });

});

When this code is executed I get this error:

TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function (evaluating 'this.func.apply(this.spec)')
    at http://localhost:8080/testacular.js:76
    at http://localhost:8080/context.html:35
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: inject
    at /home/peter/Dropbox/AngularJS/set-component/test/sets/sets-ihm.js:6
    at /home/peter/Dropbox/AngularJS/set-component/test/sets/sets-ihm.js:8
    at /home/peter/Dropbox/AngularJS/set-component/test/sets/sets-ihm.js:10

PhantomJS 1.8: Executed 1 of 3 (1 FAILED) (skipped 2) (0.072 secs / 0.01 secs)

For my test, I use Testacular with Jasmine and PhantomJS.

user2747330 · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-04 14:32:52Z

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AngularJS provides two testing libraries:

angular-mocks.js
angular-scenario.js

angular-mocks is used for Jasmine and Karma testing. It publishes global methods module() and inject() to be used in your Jasmine spec tests. This means you must load the angular-mocks.js script (after you load the angular.js library/script)

angular-scenario is only used for e2e testing.

answered Sep 4, 2013 at 14:32

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Ryan O'Neill · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 23:45:29Z

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The line where you have

beforeEach(angular.module('TargetMarketServices'));

should be

beforeEach(module('TargetMarketServices'));

If you take a look at the angular-phonecat project in test/unit/directivesSpec.js it uses

beforeEach(module('myApp.directives'));

If I modify it to use angular.module instead:

beforeEach(angular.module('myApp.directives'));

then I get this error when running testacular also:

TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function (evaluating 'this.func.apply(this.spec)')

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 23:45

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5 Comments

ChriX Over a year ago

But, when I use only module, I get the error "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: module"

Ryan O'Neill Over a year ago

Sorry, I meant angular-seed earlier, not angular-phonecat. You are getting that ReferenceError, I'm assuming, because you do not have angular-mocks.js in your testacular unit testing configuration file.

ChriX Over a year ago

The problem has been resolved by taking the angular-mocks.js file.

Clay Over a year ago

How about the answer get updated and accepted? I had the same issue, and this helped me resolve it.

Utopik Over a year ago

You can also call angular.mock.module('myApp'); instead of module('myApp') if module is overwritten (ie. browserify)

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