Upgrading from Jasmine 1.3 to 2.x First, please read Jasmine's official upgrade documentation . In your conf file Specify that you want to use jasmine2.x: exports.config = { // Specify you want to use jasmine 2.x as you would with mocha. Note, 'jasmine' by default will use the latest jasmine framework. framework: 'jasmine'}; Similar to jasmine 1.3, you may include jasmineNodeOpts in the config file. However, because we changed the runner from " https://github.com/juliemr/minijasminenode " to " https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine-npm ", the options have changed slightly. In particular, we will