Angular2 material 'md-icon' is not a known element with Karma / Jasmine

Question

I\'m working on an Angular2 application using @angular/material 2.0.0-alpha.11-3 angular-cli 1.0.0-beta.19-3 karma 1.2.0 karma-jasmine 1.0.2

Running it works fine b

Answer 1

Importing the MaterialModule as suggested by yurzui and creating the component after the promise is returned solved it. Thank you yurzui

import { async, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { By } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { DebugElement } from '@angular/core';
import { WatchpanelComponent } from './watchpanel.component';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { MaterialModule } from '@angular/material';

describe('WatchpanelComponent', () => {
  let component: WatchpanelComponent;
  let fixture: ComponentFixture;

  beforeEach(async(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      imports: [ MaterialModule.forRoot() ],
      // forRoot() deprecated
      // in later versions ------^
      declarations: [ WatchpanelComponent ] // declare the test component
    })
    .compileComponents().then(() => {
      fixture = TestBed.createComponent(WatchpanelComponent);
      component = fixture.componentInstance;
      fixture.detectChanges();
    });

  }));

  // beforeEach(() => {
  //   fixture = TestBed.createComponent(WatchpanelComponent);
  //   component = fixture.componentInstance;
  //   fixture.detectChanges();
  // });

  it('should create', () => {
    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
  });
});