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Learning Android Application Testing

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Learning Android Application Testing

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Android Application Testing
Learning Android Application Testing
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
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
Why, what, how, and when to test?
Types of tests
Java testing framework
Android testing framework
Creating the Android project
Summary
2
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
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 libraries in test projects
Summary
3
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
Summary
4
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
Running monkey
Test scripting with monkeyrunner
Summary
5
Discovering Continuous Integration
Discovering Continuous Integration
Building Android applications manually using Gradle
Git – the fast version control system
Continuous integration with Jenkins
Summary
6
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
Summary
7
Behavior-driven Development
Behavior-driven Development
Given, When, and Then
FitNesse
GivWenZen
Summary
8
Testing and Profiling Performance
Testing and Profiling Performance
Ye Olde Logge method
Timing logger
Performance tests in Android SDK
Using the Traceview and dmtracedump platform tools
Dmtracedump
Microbenchmarks
Summary
9
Alternative Testing Tactics
Alternative Testing Tactics
Code coverage
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
Summary
Index
Index

Alternatives to the AVD

The Android Virtual Device is not your only way of running Android apps. There are now a few solutions you can choose from. A quick search on Google can bring up this list (I won't write it here as they can quickly get out of date). One of these that I personally recommend is the GenyMotion emulator. This is an Android emulator that uses x86 architecture virtualization to make it much more efficient. It runs much faster and smoother than the AVD. The downside being it is only free for personal use, and as of this writing, it does not emulate all the sensors of a device, but I know they are busy working on this.

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