Learning Android Application Testing

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Learning Android Application Testing

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Learning Android Application Testing

Overview of this book

Learning Android Application Testing

Learning Android Application Testing

Credits

About the Authors

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Testing

Getting Started with Testing

Why, what, how, and when to test?

Java testing framework

Android testing framework

Creating the Android project

Understanding Testing with the Android SDK

Understanding Testing with the Android SDK

The demonstration application

Assertions in depth

View assertions

Even more assertions

The TouchUtils class

The TestCase base class

The AndroidTestCase base class

Instrumentation

The InstrumentationTestCase class

The ActivityTestCase class

The ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 class

The ProviderTestCase2<T> class

The ServiceTestCase<T>

The TestSuiteBuilder.FailedToCreateTests class

Using libraries in test projects

Baking with Testing Recipes

Baking with Testing Recipes

Android unit tests

Testing activities and applications

Testing files, databases, and content providers

Testing exceptions

Testing local and remote services

Extensive use of mock objects

Testing views in isolation

Testing parsers

The parser test

Testing for memory usage

Testing with Espresso

Managing Your Android Testing Environment

Managing Your Android Testing Environment

Creating Android Virtual Devices

Running AVDs from the command line

Additional emulator configurations

Speeding up your AVD with HAXM

Alternatives to the AVD

Test scripting with monkeyrunner

Discovering Continuous Integration

Discovering Continuous Integration

Building Android applications manually using Gradle

Git – the fast version control system

Continuous integration with Jenkins

Practicing Test-driven Development

Practicing Test-driven Development

Getting started with TDD

Creating a sample project – the temperature converter

Creating a Java module

Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityTests class

Adding functionality

Viewing our final application

Behavior-driven Development

Behavior-driven Development

Given, When, and Then

Testing and Profiling Performance

Testing and Profiling Performance

Ye Olde Logge method

Performance tests in Android SDK

Using the Traceview and dmtracedump platform tools

Microbenchmarks

Alternative Testing Tactics

Alternative Testing Tactics

Temperature converter code coverage

Introducing Robotium

Testing on the host's JVM

Introducing Robolectric

Google's march on shadows

Introducing Fest

Introducing Spoon

Introducing Fork

Index

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Chapter 7. Behavior-driven Development

Behavior-driven Development (BDD) can be understood as the evolution and confluence of Test-driven Development (TDD) and acceptance testing. Both techniques were discussed in previous chapters, so you may want to look back at Chapter 1, Getting Started with Testing, and Chapter 6, Practicing Test-driven Development, before proceeding.

Behavior-driven Development introduces some new concepts, such as the use of a common vocabulary to describe the tests, and the inclusion of business participants in the software development project, such as product owners or business analysts.

We have visited Test-driven Development before, and we focused on converting low-level requirements into tests that could drive our development process. Behavior-driven Development forces us to concentrate on higher level requirements, and by using a specific vocabulary, we can express these requirements in a way that can be further analyzed or evaluated. Some people believe BDD...