Issue using plugin about karma-mocha-reporter

[4kochi]

I am not sure if it's a problem with the reporter, because it is registered as reporter

'reporter:mocha'

It seems more like the testing framework mocha is missing. (karma-mocha)

Can you please share your complete config for further investigations.

[mikeerickson]

Here you go (and karma-mocha is installed). It all works fine so long as I dont reference it in the plugin. Also included a screenshot of installed modules

// karma.conf.js
// Created: 5/9/2016 1:07 PM
// =============================================================================

module.exports = function(config) {
  config.set({

    // base path that will be used to resolve all patterns (eg. files, exclude)
    basePath: '',


    // frameworks to use
    // available frameworks: https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/karma-adapter
    frameworks: ['mocha','sinon','chai-things','chai'],


    // list of files / patterns to load in the browser
    files: [
      'node_modules/angular/angular.js',
      'node_modules/angular-mocks/angular-mocks.js',
      'dist/bundle.js',
      'src/**/*.spec.js',
      'dist/_index.html',
    ],


    // list of files to exclude
    exclude: [
    ],


    // preprocess matching files before serving them to the browser
    // available preprocessors: https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/karma-preprocessor
    preprocessors: {
      'src/**/*.html': ['ng-html2js'],
      'src/**/!(*.mock|*.spec).js': ['coverage']
    },


    ngHtml2JsPreprocessor: {
      // strip this from the file path
      stripPrefix: 'src/',
      // create a single module that contains templates from all the files
      moduleName: 'templates'
    },


    // test results reporter to use
    // possible values: 'dots', 'progress'
    // available reporters: https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/karma-reporter
    reporters: ['mocha','coverage'],


    superDotsReporter: {
      icon: {
        success : ' ✔ ',
        failure : ' ✖ ',
        ignore  : ' ℹ '
      }
    },

    coverageReporter: {
      type : 'html',
      dir : 'coverage/'
    },


    // web server port
    port: 9876,


    // enable / disable colors in the output (reporters and logs)
    colors: true,


    // level of logging
    // possible values: config.LOG_DISABLE || config.LOG_ERROR || config.LOG_WARN || config.LOG_INFO || config.LOG_DEBUG
    logLevel: config.LOG_INFO,


    // enable / disable watching file and executing tests whenever any file changes
    autoWatch: true,


    // start these browsers
    // available browser launchers: https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/karma-launcher
    browsers: ['PhantomJS'],


    // Continuous Integration mode
    // if true, Karma captures browsers, runs the tests and exits
    singleRun: true
  });
};

[4kochi]

Could it be that your plugins section looks like this:

plugins: [
  'karma-mocha-reporter'
]

If so, karma only loads the reporter plugin but not the others, so karma-mocha is not loaded. So either you remove the plugin section from the config and karma takes care of loading all plugins. Or if you specify the plugins section, you have to enter all plugin names.

[mikeerickson]

Yep, that seemed to be the issue. Just had to specifically list all the plugins and all worked.

But, the reporter doesnt look much different than the existing mocha reporter karma-mocha?

[4kochi]

I am not aware that karma-mocha ships it's own reporter. I thought it's only the test framework and the default karma reporter is used.

[mikeerickson]

@4kochi yes, you are indeed correct. My bad ;-)