If you use the standard HTML reporter for jasmine an expect like:

expect(JSON.stringify(actual)).toEqual(JSON.stringify(expected));

would result in:

If you replace the div tag with a pre tag in the “jasmine-html.js” file.

and use the third paramater of the JSON.stringify method to pretty print the JSON,

like:

expect(JSON.stringify(actual, null, 4)).toEqual(JSON.stringify(expected, null, 4));

the result will be:

In some cases this will simplify, spotting the error in the JSON result.