Fixing start-time and end-time related Jasmine tests.

BLD-1013

.jshintrc

@@ -108,5 +108,30 @@
     //
     // The parameter "predef" should remain empty for this configuration file
     // to remain as general as possible.
-    "predef": []
+    "predef": [
+        // jQuery library.
+        "jQuery", "$",
+
+        // Underscore.js library.
+        "_",
+
+        // Jasmine library.
+        "jasmine",
+        "describe", "xdescribe",
+        "it", "xit",
+        "spyOn",
+        "beforeEach",
+        "afterEach",
+        "expect",
+        "waitsFor",
+        "runs",
+
+        // jQuery-Jasmine library.
+        "loadFixtures",
+        "appendLoadFixtures",
+        "readFixtures",
+        "setFixtures",
+        "appendSetFixtures",
+        "spyOnEvent"
+    ]
 }

common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/js/spec/helper.js

-(function ($, undefined) {
+(function () {
+    'use strict';
+
     var stubbedYT = {
         Player: function () {
             var Player = jasmine.createSpyObj(
@@ -150,11 +152,11 @@
                 }
             } else if (settings.url.match(/transcript\/translation\/.+$/)) {
                 return settings.success(jasmine.stubbedCaption);
-            } else if (settings.url == '/transcript/available_translations') {
+            } else if (settings.url === '/transcript/available_translations') {
                 return settings.success(['uk', 'de']);
             } else if (settings.url.match(/.+\/problem_get$/)) {
                 return settings.success({
-                    html: readFixtures('problem_content.html')
+                    html: window.readFixtures('problem_content.html')
                 });
             } else if (
                 settings.url === '/calculate' ||
@@ -163,13 +165,15 @@
                 settings.url.match(/.+\/problem_(check|reset|show|save)$/)
             ) {
                 // Do nothing.
-            } else if (settings.url == '/save_user_state') {
+                return;
+            } else if (settings.url === '/save_user_state') {
                 return {success: true};
             } else if (settings.url === 'http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api') {
                 // Stub YouTube API.
                 window.YT = stubbedYT;
 
-                // Call the callback that must be called when YouTube API is loaded. By specification.
+                // Call the callback that must be called when YouTube API is
+                // loaded. By specification.
                 window.onYouTubeIframeAPIReady();
 
                 return {success: true};
@@ -205,7 +209,7 @@
             }
         });
 
-        return this.addMatchers(imagediff.jasmine);
+        return this.addMatchers(window.imagediff.jasmine);
     });
 
     // Stub jQuery.cookie module.
@@ -244,7 +248,7 @@
         }
 
         jasmine.stubRequests();
-        state = new Video('#example');
+        state = new window.Video('#example');
 
         state.resizer = (function () {
             var methods = [
@@ -279,4 +283,4 @@
         // "video.html" contains HTML template for a YouTube video.
         return jasmine.initializePlayer('video.html', params);
     };
-}).call(this, window.jQuery);
+}).call(this);