Karma/Jasmine times out without running tests

Question

I'm trying to run Karma/Jasmine from Grunt on a project generated with http://newtriks.com/2013/12/31/automating-react-with-yeoman-and-grunt/

Karma launches PhantomJS (or Chrome) and, depending on singleRun, it either times out or just sits there and does nothing. I've tried changing captureTimeout and browserNoActivityTimeout based on reading solutions from people with similar problems, but it doesn't seem to work.

My relevant pacakge versions etc.:

• NodeJS: 0.10.25
• Karma: 0.12.16
• Webpack: 1.1.11
• webpack-dev-server: 1.4.1
• karma-jasmine: 0.1.5
• Linux: Ubuntu 14.04

I've found someone with the same problem on OS X:

I've tried updating all my dev dependencies to the latest versions but the problem still remains.

My console output is below. The webpack lines referring to bundle is now VALID/INVALID are worrying, but I can't find any info on what they mean. Here's my console output:

Running "karma:unit" (karma) task
DEBUG [config]: autoWatch set to false, because of singleRun
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading karma-* from /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-chrome-launcher.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-coffee-preprocessor.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-firefox-launcher.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-html2js-preprocessor.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-jasmine.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-requirejs.
DEBUG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-script-launcher.
DEBG [plugin]: Loading plugin /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-webpack-plugin.
INFO [karma]: Karma v0.12.16 server started at  http://localhost:8080/
INFO [launcher]: Starting browser PhantomJS
DEBUG [temp-dir]: Creating temp dir at /tmp/karma-98204612
DEBUG [launcher]: /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs /tmp/karma-98204612/capture.js
Hash: 89285186567c1bc5bb7f
Version: webpack 1.1.11
Time: 2ms
Asset  Size  Chunks       Chunk Names
webpack: bundle is now VALID.
webpack: bundle is now INVALID.
DEBUG [web-server]: serving: /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma/static/client.html
DEBUG [web-server]: serving: /home/ed/workspace/wwb-app/node_modules/karma/static/karma.js
DEBUG [web-server]: upgrade /socket.io/1/websocket/CjC8pnQq5It2z_kWYB98
DEBUG [karma]: A browser has connected on socket CjC8pnQq5It2z_kWYB98
INFO [PhantomJS 1.9.7 (Linux)]: Connected on socket CjC8pnQq5It2z_kWYB98 with id 98204612
DEBUG [launcher]: PhantomJS (id 98204612) captured in 1.704 secs
WARN [PhantomJS 1.9.7 (Linux)]: Disconnected (1 times), because no message in 30000 ms.

DEBUG [karma]: Run complete, exitting.
DEBUG [launcher]: Disconnecting all browsers
DEBUG [launcher]: Process PhantomJS exited with code 0
DEBUG [temp-dir]: Cleaning temp dir /tmp/karma-98204612
Warning: Task "karma:unit" failed. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

Here's my karma.conf.js file:

'use strict';

module.exports = function (config) {
config.set({
    basePath: '',
    frameworks: ['jasmine'],
    files: [
        'test/helpers/**/*.js',
        'test/spec/components/**/*.js'
    ],
    preprocessors: {
        'test/spec/components/**/*.js': ['webpack']
    },
    webpack: {
        cache: true,
        module: {
            loaders: [{
                test: /\.css$/,
                loader: 'style!css'
            }, {
                test: /\.gif/,
                loader: 'url-loader?limit=10000&minetype=image/gif'
            }, {
                test: /\.jpg/,
                loader: 'url-loader?limit=10000&minetype=image/jpg'
            }, {
                test: /\.png/,
                loader: 'url-loader?limit=10000&minetype=image/png'
            }, {
                test: /\.js$/,
                loader: 'jsx-loader'
            }]
        }
    },
    webpackServer: {
        stats: {
            colors: true
        }
    },
    exclude: [],
    port: 8080,
    logLevel: config.LOG_DEBUG,
    colors: true,
    autoWatch: true,
    // Start these browsers, currently available:
    // - Chrome
    // - ChromeCanary
    // - Firefox
    // - Opera
    // - Safari (only Mac)
    // - PhantomJS
    // - IE (only Windows)
    browsers: ['PhantomJS'],
    reporters: ['progress'],
    captureTimeout: 60000,
    browserNoActivityTimeout: 60000,
    singleRun: true
});
};

Answer 1

I had the same problem. From a related GitHub Issue, I learned that you can extend the inactivity timeout.

Set this Karma config option in your gruntfile or karma config file:

browserNoActivityTimeout: 100000

I set it to 100 seconds and my tests ran successfully. I don't know what's causing the delay.