Do not use controllers to:
- Manipulate DOM — Controllers should contain only business logic. Putting any presentation logic into Controllers significantly affects its testability. Angular has databinding for most cases and directives to encapsulate manual DOM manipulation.
- Format input — Use angular form controls instead.
- Filter output — Use angular filters instead.
- Share code or state across controllers — Use angular services instead.
- Manage the life-cycle of other components (for example, to create service instances).
Let's write some tests to show how to override configuration in tests.
describe('myApp', function() {
// load application module (`greetMod`) then load a special
// test module which overrides `$window` with a mock version,
// so that calling `window.alert()` will not block the test
// runner with a real alert box.
beforeEach(module('greetMod', function($provide) {
$provide.value('$window', {
alert: jasmine.createSpy('alert')
});
}));
// inject() will create the injector and inject the `greet` and
// `$window` into the tests.
it('should alert on $window', inject(function(greet, $window) {
greet('World');
expect($window.alert).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Hello World!');
}));
// this is another way of overriding configuration in the
// tests using inline `module` and `inject` methods.
it('should alert using the alert service', function() {
var alertSpy = jasmine.createSpy('alert');
module(function($provide) {
$provide.value('alert', alertSpy);
});
inject(function(greet) {
greet('World');
expect(alertSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Hello World!');
});
});
});