Protractor with Angular Mocks Throws "Window Not Defined"
<p>I've searched around quite a bit on this problem, but can't find a solution.</p>

<p>I'm trying to mock my backend, which is well tested so I can completely isolate my frontend.  I've tried using protractor-http-mock and also various efforts with angular-mocks.</p>

<p>Having settled on the angular-mocks method with HttpBackend, I'm getting this error when firing up my protractor tests:</p>

<pre><code>MBP:test-site admin$ protractor protractor.conf.js
Using ChromeDriver directly...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[launcher] Error: ReferenceError: window is not defined
    at Object.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/Users/Ed/Sites/F4F/web/node_modules/angular/angular.js:30426:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:16:19)
    at Object.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/Users/Ed/Sites/F4F/web/node_modules/angular/index.js:1:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
[launcher] Process exited with error code 100
</code></pre>

<p>This is my protractor.conf.js</p>

<pre><code>exports.config = {

    directConnect: true,

    // Capabilities to be passed to the webdriver instance.
    capabilities: {
        'browserName': 'chrome'
    },

    chromeOnly: true,
    chromeDriver: './node_modules/protractor/selenium/chromedriver',

    // Framework to use. Jasmine 2 is recommended.
    framework: 'jasmine2',

    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/',
    seleniumAddress: 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub',

    // Spec patterns are relative to the current working directly when
    // protractor is called.
    specs: ['./tests/**/*.js'],

    // Options to be passed to Jasmine.
    jasmineNodeOpts: {
        showColors: true,
        defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
    }

};
</code></pre>

<p>And this is my test:</p>

<pre><code>'use strict'

var angular         = require('angular');
var angular_mock    = require('angular-mocks');
var HttpBackend     = require('httpbackend');
var backend         = null;

describe("Footer", function () {

    beforeEach(function() {
        backend = new HttpBackend(browser);
    });

    afterEach(function() {
        backend.clear();
    });

    describe("Display Values", function () {

        it("should show correct contact details", function () {

            backend.whenGET(/app/).respond({
                "name": "ExampleApp",
                "company": {
                    "code": "EXA",
                    "name": "ExampleApp",
                    "brand_name": "ExampleApp",
                    "head_office_id": 3,
                    "display_email": "sales@example.com",
                    "display_tel": "+44 (0) 1234 56789"
                }
            });

            browser.get('/');

            var tel_li      = $('#footer .top li:first-child');
            var email_li    = $('#footer .top li:last-child');

            expect(tel_li.getText()).toEqual('+44 (0) 1234 56789');
            expect(email_li.getText()).toEqual('sales@example.com');

        });
    });
});
</code></pre>

<p>Can anybody help please?</p>

<p>--- Responding to @alecxe's comment</p>

<p>Revising the test to look like this:</p>

<pre><code>'use strict'

describe("Footer", function () {

    describe("Display Values", function () {

        it("should show correct contact details", function () {

            browser.get('/');

        });
    });
});
</code></pre>

<p>Gives the following result:</p>

<pre><code>MBP:test-site admin$ protractor protractor.conf.js
Using ChromeDriver directly...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
Started
.


1 spec, 0 failures
Finished in 0.749 seconds
[launcher] 0 instance(s) of WebDriver still running
[launcher] chrome #1 passed
</code></pre>