Karma is a test runner built by the AngularJS team to test JavaScript across multiple real browsers. It is framework agnostic and works by spawning a web driver, executing the source code against test code in connected browsers. Key features include testing in real browsers, remote control, integration with IDEs/editors, CI servers, debugging. It is configured via an npm package and configuration file to specify browsers, frameworks, files, plugins, and more. It supports various browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE and frameworks like Jasmine, Mocha, QUnit.

1. Spectacular Test Runner
for Javascript
CPSC 473-01 Lightning Talk By
Ketul Shah
Sayali Joshi

2. Introduction
 Built by AngularJS team By Vojta Jína
 A test runner to test your script across cross-browser environment
 Test framework agnostic test runner
 How it works?
 Spawns the web driver specified in its configuration file.
 Executes source code against test code for each connected browser.

3. Features
 Testing on real browsers
 Remote control
 Speed
 Integration with IDEs and text editors
 Integration with CI servers
 Extensibility
 Debugging

4. Installation and Configuration
 Available as an npm package
 $ npm install –g karma --save-dev
 Install plugins that your project needs
 $ npm install karma-jasmine karma-chrome-launcher --save-dev

5. Configuration file
 basePath
 Frameworks
 Files
 Exclude
 Preprocessors
 Reporters
 Port
 Colors
 logLevel
 autoWatch
 Browsers
 singleRun

6. Browser and Framework Support
 Browser support
 Chrome
 ChromeCanary
 PhantomJS
 Firefox
 Opera
 IE
 Safari
 Testing framework support
 Jasmine
 Mocha
 Qunit

7. References
 Google Testing Blog, http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2012/11/testacular-spectacular-test-
runner-for.html
 Karma Official Site, https://karma-runner.github.io/0.13/index.html
 https://egghead.io/lessons/unit-testing-introduction-to-karma

8. Thank You!
Any questions?