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There is something I don't fully understand with AngularJS. If I declare the controllers this way:

angular.module('ngApp', []).controller('AboutCtrl', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
  $scope.awesomeThings = ['HTML5 Boilerplate', 'AngularJS', 'Karma'];
}]);

angular.module('ngApp', []).controller('ContactCtrl', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
  $scope.awesomeThings = ['HTML5 Boilerplate', 'AngularJS', 'Karma'];
}]);

angular.module('ngApp', []).controller('MainCtrl', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
  $scope.awesomeThings = ['HTML5 Boilerplate', 'AngularJS', 'Karma'];
}]);

...whenever I try to test them only one of them pass the test case(s):

describe('MainCtrl', function () {
  var scope;

  beforeEach(module('ngApp'));
  beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $controller) {
    scope = $rootScope.$new();
    $controller('MainCtrl', { $scope: scope });
  }));

  it('should attach a list of `awesomeThings` to the scope', function () {
    expect(scope.awesomeThings.length).toBe(3);
  });
});

(I have also three files with the same test case repeated, the only thing that changes is the controller name: AboutCtrl and ContactCtrl in the apprpriate locations).

On the other hand, if I say: var app = angular.module('ngApp', []); and then "attach" the controllers to it, everything works fine. The same if I attached them to the same chain in one angular.module('ngApp', []).controller(/* ... */).controller(/* ... */);

The reason I want them separate is because I want to have them in (three...N) different files.

Anyone has any clue?

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You are re-declaring your ngApp module each time, rather than getting the already declared module.

From John Papa's Angular Style Guide:

•Only set once and get for all other instances.

Why?: A module should only be created once, then retrieved from that point and after.

/* recommended */

// to set a module
angular.module('app', []);

// to get a module
angular.module('app');
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By calling angular.module('ngApp', []) you are creating a new module, not reusing the same one. In order to do that just call .module with the app name and no other argument

angular.module('ngApp')

file1.js

angular.module('ngApp').controller(...);

file2.js

angular.module('ngApp').controller(...);

you could also just save the module to a global variable and just use that variable

main.js

var app = angular.module('ngApp',[]);

file1.js

app.controller(...);

file2.js

app.controller(...);
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