# Unit testing Kibana plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unit-testing-kibana-plugin/98697>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unit-testing-kibana-plugin/98697 "2017-08-29T13:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ayadirh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayadirh/32/21617_2.png) [@ayadirh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayadirh)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unit-testing-kibana-plugin/98697/1 "2017-08-29T13:32:01Z")

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I am writing unit-test based on Karma and ng-mock.  
While I load

```
import $ from 'jquery';
import _ from 'lodash';
import expect from 'expect.js';
import ngMock from 'ng_mock';
import sinon from 'auto-release-sinon';
import VisProvider from 'ui/vis';

describe('testing my vis', function () {
beforeEach(ngMock.module('kibana','my_plugin'));
//or beforeEach(ngMock.module('kibana','kibana/my_plugin'));
//or beforeEach(ngMock.module('kibana/my_plugin'));
it('should ...');
});

```

it says:

```
[$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module my_plugin due to:
Error: [$injector:nomod] Module 'my_plugin' is not available! You either misspelled the module 
name or forgot to load it. If registering a module ensure that you specify the dependencies as the 
second argument.

```

I checked there are no spelling mistakes.

My Kibana dev version is 5.4.0.  
I am keeping my test files in **test** folder inside public and running unit test using npm run test:browser.  
And package.json reads "test:browser": "plugin-helpers test:browser".

What may be the issue? What am i doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unit-testing-kibana-plugin/98697/2 "2017-08-31T09:33:43Z")

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That looks like your module was not registered with the angular dependency injection system. I guess you still have to somewhere import the file that contains the `angular.module('my_plugin')` or `uiModule.get('my_plugin')` line in order for it to be available.

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**Author:** ![ayadirh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayadirh/32/21617_2.png) [@ayadirh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayadirh)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unit-testing-kibana-plugin/98697/3 "2017-09-04T15:14:32Z")

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Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unit-testing-kibana-plugin/98697/4 "2017-10-02T15:14:40Z")

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