First off, you really shouldn't be adding $scope to your controller. Always use ControllerAs syntax as a best practice. If you aren't familiar, John Papa has an excellent style guide for AngularJS coding practices: Angular 1 Style Guide Alright, now that we got that out of the way. You probably have an edge case or something where you need to add it. Cool, I got you covered. … [Read more...] about AngularJS Add $scope to Controller Unit Test