Karma reporting framework contains an non-functioning API (unable to write JSON result to file)

[devanshah2]

Currently there exists an issues open in the open source karma tool where we are not able to send object from client side to server side: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/issues/2192

Currently they have no plan to fix the issues, until there are more votes on the open source karma issues.

Therefore I am implementing a way for people to still be able to write the results to JSON from karma so that they can generate baselines files for their scans.

[devanshah2]

The way the work around works is, by simply calling the following: Focus on the block "REFER TO THIS PART"

                    // Perform the accessibility scan using the IBMaScan Wrapper
                    AAT.getCompliance(unitTestFile, unitTestFileKey, function (results) {

                        var returnCode = AAT.assertCompliance(results);
                         
                        // REFER TO THIS PART
                        // For the workaround need to make the testcase fail so that the results are sent to the server side and there is a parse that reads the string and converts it into JSON and writes it to file
                        expect(returnCode).toBe(0, JSON.stringify(results));

                        // Mark the testcases as done.
                        done();
                    });

Before making use of this workaround make sure you are using either frameworks jasmine or mocha and set color: false in karma config

        // enable / disable colors in the output (reporters and logs)
        colors: false,

Also make sure to only use the default karma reporter progress with AAT

reporters: ['progress', 'AAT']