Test for click event using Jasmine test suite

Question

I am using jasmine to test my application and right now no button exists in my code
but i want to write a test in which i can check that whether a click event is fired or not.
You can simply think that i want to fire click event without button .

Here is what i did

 scenario('checking that click event is triggered or not', function () {

    given('Sigin form is filled', function () {

    });
    when('signin button is clicked ', function () {
        spyOn($, "click");
        $.click();

    });
    then('Should click event is fired or not" ', function () {
        expect($.click).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
});

Thanks in advance .

Solution

What I generally tend to do is create a stub and assign the event to the stub. Then trigger the click event and check if it was called

describe('view interactions', function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
        this.clickEventStub = sinon.stub(this, 'clickEvent');
    });

    afterEach(function () {
        this.clickEvent.restore();
    });

    describe('when item is clicked', function () {
        it('event is fired', function () {
            this.elem.trigger('click');
            expect(this.clickEventStub).toHaveBeenCalled();
        });
    });
});