Unable to build and test karma using source on Ubuntu 16.04

[spurti-chopra]

Expected behaviour

Build and test via npm should be successful on Ubuntu 16.04

Actual behaviour

Build showing several warnings related to peer dependency

Environment Details

Target Platform: Ubuntu 16.04
Architecture: Intel (x86_64) and ppc64le
NPM version v9.4.0

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Followed below steps on x86_64 ubuntu 16.04

$curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh| bash
$source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
$nvm install stable
$nvm use stable
cloned karma repository
$ npm install
$ npm run init
$ npm test

npm install shows following warning related to peer dependencies:
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.10.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of watchify@>=3 <4 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.10.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.11.14 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@* but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.10 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.13 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of karma@>=0.9 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):

npm test failures are:
_488 passing (6s)
4 failing

1. helper
   browserFullNameToShort
   should parse IE7:

   AssertionError: expected 'IE 7.0.0 (Windows Vista.0.0)' to equal 'IE 7.0.0 (Windows Vista 0.0.0)'

   • expected - actual

   -IE 7.0.0 (Windows Vista.0.0)
   +IE 7.0.0 (Windows Vista 0.0.0)

   at Context.it (test/unit/helper.spec.js:76:16)

2. helper
   browserFullNameToShort
   should parse IE8:

   AssertionError: expected 'IE 8.0.0 (Windows 7.0.0)' to equal 'IE 8.0.0 (Windows 7 0.0.0)'

   • expected - actual

   -IE 8.0.0 (Windows 7.0.0)
   +IE 8.0.0 (Windows 7 0.0.0)

   at Context.it (test/unit/helper.spec.js:84:16)

3. helper
   browserFullNameToShort
   should parse IE9:

   AssertionError: expected 'IE 9.0.0 (Windows 7.0.0)' to equal 'IE 9.0.0 (Windows 7 0.0.0)'

   • expected - actual

   -IE 9.0.0 (Windows 7.0.0)
   +IE 9.0.0 (Windows 7 0.0.0)

   at Context.it (test/unit/helper.spec.js:92:16)

4. helper
   browserFullNameToShort
   should parse IE10:

   AssertionError: expected 'IE 10.0.0 (Windows 8.0.0)' to equal 'IE 10.0.0 (Windows 8 0.0.0)'

   • expected - actual

   -IE 10.0.0 (Windows 8.0.0)
   +IE 10.0.0 (Windows 8 0.0.0)

   at Context.it (test/unit/helper.spec.js:100:16)

Warning: Task "mochaTest:unit" failed. Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings._

I am running this with default configurations. Please let me know if I am missing something.
Thanks !

[lusarz]

@spurti-chopra I think it's fixed with this pr.

[johnjbarton]

Please reopen if not fixed.