I have recently been upgrading a project from Angular 1.3 to 1.5 in an attempt to get the majority of our projects to a state where a migration to Angular 2 might be more likely.

The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 was for the most part entirely painless as the migration notes had promised. The application built and ran and none of our code seemed to be relying on any of the breaking behaviour between the versions.

There was just one problem, all our tests were failing. All the mocks were coming back as undefined with an obscure error url that didn’t really help as the advice it gave was about implementing a provider which applied to none of the mock setup that was happening in the code.

It took a bit of Googling around the problem (and hence this blog post to try and improve the situation) to find a related issue in Github that finally clued me off to the solution that we needed to update the Karma PhantomJS runner and more crucially the version of PhantomJS we were using.

As far as I can tell switching Karma to use PhantomJS 2 is a good idea irrespective of what version of Angular you are using so I think it would probably sensible to do this before you start updating Angular itself.