What is it?

• Test runner
• Created by the AngularJS team
• Testing framework agnostic (Jasmine, Mocha, etc.)
• Test across multiple browsers and devices
• Built-in watch mode

Why use Karma?

PhantomJS's Future??

April 13th, maintainer of PhantomJS steps down

[Headless] Chrome

• Specs run in same browser during build and development
• ES6 support without transpiling
  • ​Currently, PhantomJS does not support ES6 natively

  • Chrome does!!

IntelliJ Support

• Breakpoints / Debugging
• Runners
  • Coverage
  • Debug
• Skipped Tests Identified
• Can use Karma Auto Watch

Try it out