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Android Application Testing Guide

By : Diego Torres Milano
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Android Application Testing Guide

By: Diego Torres Milano

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<p>It doesn't matter how much time you invest in Android design, or even how careful you are when programming; mistakes are inevitable and bugs will appear. This book will help you minimize the impact of these errors in your Android project and increase your development productivity. It will show you the problems that are easily avoided, to help get you quickly to the testing stage.<br /><br />Android Application Testing Guide is the first and only book providing a practical introduction to the most common available techniques, frameworks, and tools to improve the development of your Android applications. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to write tests for your applications and assure quality control using various methodologies.<br /><br />The author's experience in applying application testing techniques to real world projects enables him to share insights on creating professional Android applications. <br /><br />The book starts by introducing Test Driven Development, which is an agile component of the software development process and a technique where you will tackle bugs early on. From the most basic unit tests applied to a sample project to more sophisticated performance tests, this book provides a detailed description of the most widely used techniques in the Android testing world in a recipe-based approach.<br /><br />The author has extensive experience of working on various development projects throughout his professional career. All this research and knowledge has helped create a book that will serve as a useful resource to any developer navigating the world of Android testing.</p>

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Android Application Testing Guide
Diego Torres Milano
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Application Testing Guide
Android Application Testing Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Testing
Getting Started with Testing
Brief history
Software bugs
Why, what, how, and when to test
Types of tests
Android testing framework
Summary
2
Testing on Android
Testing on Android
JUnit
Creating the Android main project
Creating the Android test project
Package explorer
Creating a test case
Running the tests
Debugging tests
Other command-line options
Summary
3
Building Blocks on the Android SDK
Building Blocks on the Android SDK
The demonstration application
Assertions in depth
View assertions
Even more assertions
The TouchUtils class
Mock Objects
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 external libraries in test projects
Summary
4
Test Driven Development
Test Driven Development
Getting started with TDD
Creating a sample project—the Temperature Converter
Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityTests project
Adding functionality
Viewing our final application
Summary
5
Android Testing Environment
Android Testing Environment
Creating Android Virtual Devices
Running AVDs from the command line
Additional emulator configurations
Running monkey
Test scripting with monkeyrunner
Summary
6
Behavior Driven Development
Behavior Driven Development
Brief history
Given, when, then
FitNesse
GivWenZen
Summary
7
Testing Recipes
Testing Recipes
Android Unit tests
Testing activities and applications
Testing files, databases, and ContentProviders
Testing exceptions
Testing local and remote services
Extensive use of mock objects
Testing Views in isolation
Testing parsers
Testing for memory leaks
Summary
8
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration
Building Android applications manually using Ant
Git—the fast version control system
Continuous Integration with Hudson
Summary
9
Performance Testing and Profiling
Performance Testing and Profiling
Ye Olde Logge method
Performance tests in Android SDK
Using the Traceview and dmtracedump platform tools
Microbenchmarks
Summary
10
Alternative Testing Tactics
Alternative Testing Tactics
Building Android from source
TemperatureConverter code coverage
The undocumented Ant coverage target
Introducing Robotium
Testing on host's JVM
Introducing Robolectric
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Diego Torres Milano has been involved with the Android platform since its inception, at the end of 2007, when he started exploring and researching the platform possibilities, mainly in the areas of User Interfaces, Unit and Acceptance Tests, and Test Driven Development.

This is reflected by a number of articles mainly published in his personal blog (http://dtmilano.blogspot.com) and his participation as a lecturer in some conferences and courses like Mobile Dev Camp 2008 in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Japan Linux Symposium 2009 (Tokyo), Droidcon London 2009, Skillsmatter 2009 (London, UK), and he has also authored Android training courses delivered to various companies in Europe.

Previously, he was the founder and developer of several Open Source projects, mainly CULT Universal Linux Thin Project (cult-thinclient.sf.net) and the very successful PXES Universal Linux Thin Client project (that was later acquired by 2X Software, www.2x.com). PXES is a Linux-based Operating System specialized for thin clients used by hundreds of thousands of thin clients all over the world. This project has a popularity peak of 35M hits and 400K downloads from SourceForge in 2005. This project had a dual impact: big companies in Europe decided to use it because of improved security and efficiency; organizations, institutions, and schools in some developing countries in South America, Africa, and Asia decided to use it because of the minimal hardware requirements to have a huge social impact providing computers, sometimes recycled ones, to everyone.

Among the other Open Source projects that he has founded we can mention Autoglade, Gnome-tla, JGlade, and he has been contributing to various Linux distributions such as RedHat, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

He also has been giving presentations in Linux World, LinuxTag, GUADEC ES, University of Buenos Aires, and so on.

He has been developing software, participating in Open Source projects, and advising companies worldwide for more than 15 years.

He can be contacted at .

Firstly, I would like to thank my family: Laura, Augusto and Octavio for their patience and consideration. The time I borrowed to achieve this goal was mostly theirs.

Secondly I would like to thank my personal friend and IN3 Integracion Informatica co-founder, Caludio Palonsky, with whom we started this amazing adventure more than 15 years ago when we pioneered the provision of Linux services and support to enterprises in South America. He certainly taught me to be a bit more consultant and a bit less hacker (but I'm a very bad student :-)). And special thanks to Ricston's Peter Delia with whom we started providing Android training services throughout Europe as early as mid 2008 when Android was just a beautiful dream of having a mainstream Open Source operating system in the mobile arena. This is now a reality dictated by the market.

And lastly I would like to thank all the reviewers and the Packt Publishing team who gave me their opinion, suggestions, and corrections on early manuscripts; without them the book would never have had the quality it endowed.

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