Installing Jasmine standalone

Download the latest Jasmine release from the Jasmine release page:

Running Jasmine locally

1. Run Jasmine in the browser by downloading the zip file, extracting it, the referencing the files as follows:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="jasmine/lib/jasmine-2.0.0/jasmine_favicon.png">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jasmine/lib/jasmine-2.0.0/jasmine.css">

<script type="text/javascript" src="jasmine/lib/jasmine-2.0.0/jasmine.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jasmine/lib/jasmine-2.0.0/jasmine-html.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jasmine/lib/jasmine-2.0.0/boot.js"></script>

Installing Jasmine using npm (Node Package Manager)

1. Set up project directory for Jasmine

   Create a folder and run npm init this will create an empty package.json file and will ask some questions about your project to fill project json file.

   Add 2 directories app - for the Server and spec - for tests

2. Get Jasmine

   From root project directory run

   npm install jasmine-node --save

   npm install request --save

   npm install express --save

   this will get you the packages

   ./node_packages/.bin/jasmine-node spec will run jasmine binary

   After this your package.json should look similar to this

   package.json file, after which that file should look like this:

  {
      "name": "Jasmine",
      "version": "0.0.1",
      "description": "Jasmine",
      "main": "index.js",
      "scripts": {
        "test": "./node_modules/.bin/jasmine-node spec"
      },
      "author": "Me",
      "license": "ISC"
    }

Install with npm

npm install -g jasmine

If being used with karma, install karma-jasmine

npm install --save-dev karma-jasmine

To create a most basic test with Jasmine go to your spec (tests) folder and add file named testSpec.js.

In that file add following:

var request = require("request");

describe("Hello World Test", function() {
  // This is your test bundle

  describe("GET SO", function() {
    //This is testing that http GET works

    it("Checks if SO is online", function() {
      // This is description of your test - this is what you get when it fails
      
      request.get("http://stackoverflow.com/", function(error, response, body) {
        // this is your test body

        expect(response.statusCode).toBe(200);
        // this is your test assertion - it expects status code to be '200'
      });
    });
  });
});