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I have a controller which gets a value from $scope and sends it to a different state:

controllers.controller('SearchController', ['$scope', '$state', '$stateParams',
function($scope, $state, $stateParams) {
    $scope.search = function() {
        $stateParams.query = $scope.keyword;
        $state.go('search', $stateParams);
    };
}]);

I am unsure how to go about unit testing this search method. How can I either verify that the go method has been called or do some sort of when($state.go('search', $stateParams)).then(called = true); with Karma/AngularJS?

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Both of these sound like things you can do with Jasmine spies.

describe('my unit tests', function() {
    beforeEach(inject(function($state) {
        spyOn($state, 'go');
        // or
        spyOn($state, 'go').andCallFake(function(state, params) {
            // This replaces the 'go' functionality for the duration of your test
        });
    }));

    it('should test something', inject(function($state){
        // Call something that eventually hits $state.go
        expect($state.go).toHaveBeenCalled();
        expect($state.go).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expectedState, expectedParams);
        // ...
    }));
});

There is a good spy cheatsheet here http://tobyho.com/2011/12/15/jasmine-spy-cheatsheet/ or the actual Jasmine docs here http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/.

The nice thing about using spies is that it will let you avoid actually performing the state transition unless you explicitly tell it to. A state transition will fail your unit test in Karma if it changes the URL.

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Perfect, just what I was looking for. –  shmish111 Oct 10 '13 at 12:59

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