Upgrade Karma and Jasmine, and remove obsolete dependencies

[rfontanarosa]

closes #2333

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 61.29%. Comparing base (f6198f2) to head (77de6a1).
⚠️ Report is 975 commits behind head on master.

Additional details and impacted files

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##           master    #2334      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   56.56%   61.29%   +4.73%     
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  Files          66      114      +48     
  Lines        1844     3405    +1561     
  Branches      254      403     +149     
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+ Hits         1043     2087    +1044     
- Misses        734     1274     +540     
+ Partials       67       44      -23     

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