Common skeleton unit test for a directive

gistfile1.js

describe('myDir directive', function () {
  var element, scope;
  
  beforeEach(module('myDirModule'));
  
  beforeEach(inject(function ($compile, $rootScope) {
    var linkingFn = $compile('<my-dir></my-dir>');
    scope = $rootScope;
    element = linkingFn(scope);
  }));
  
  it('has some properties', function() {
    expect(element.someMethod()).toBe(XXX);
  });
  
  it('does something to the scope', function() {
    expect(scope.someField).toBe(XXX);
  });
  
  ....
  
});