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Learning Android Application Testing

Learning Android Application Testing

By : Paul Blundell
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Learning Android Application Testing

Learning Android Application Testing

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By: Paul Blundell
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Overview of this book

If you are an Android developer looking to test your applications or optimize your application development process, then this book is for you. No previous experience in application testing is required.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Testing
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1. Getting Started with Testing
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Why, what, how, and when to test?
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Types of tests
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Java testing framework
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Android testing framework
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Creating the Android project
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Summary
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2. Understanding Testing with the Android SDK
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2. Understanding Testing with the Android SDK
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The demonstration application
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Assertions in depth
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View assertions
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Even more assertions
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The TouchUtils class
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Mock objects
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The TestCase base class
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The AndroidTestCase base class
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Instrumentation
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The InstrumentationTestCase class
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The ActivityTestCase class
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The ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 class
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The ProviderTestCase2 class
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The ServiceTestCase
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The TestSuiteBuilder.FailedToCreateTests class
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Using libraries in test projects
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Summary
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3. Baking with Testing Recipes
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3. Baking with Testing Recipes
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Android unit tests
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Testing activities and applications
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Testing files, databases, and content providers
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Testing exceptions
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Testing local and remote services
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Extensive use of mock objects
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Testing views in isolation
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Testing parsers
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The parser test
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Testing for memory usage
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Testing with Espresso
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4. Managing Your Android Testing Environment
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4. Managing Your Android Testing Environment
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Creating Android Virtual Devices
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Running AVDs from the command line
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Additional emulator configurations
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Speeding up your AVD with HAXM
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Alternatives to the AVD
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Running monkey
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Test scripting with monkeyrunner
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Summary
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5. Discovering Continuous Integration
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5. Discovering Continuous Integration
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Building Android applications manually using Gradle
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Git – the fast version control system
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Continuous integration with Jenkins
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Summary
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6. Practicing Test-driven Development
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6. Practicing Test-driven Development
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Getting started with TDD
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Creating a sample project – the temperature converter
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Creating a Java module
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Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityTests class
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Adding functionality
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Viewing our final application
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7. Behavior-driven Development
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7. Behavior-driven Development
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Given, When, and Then
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FitNesse
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GivWenZen
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8. Testing and Profiling Performance
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8. Testing and Profiling Performance
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Ye Olde Logge method
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Timing logger
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Performance tests in Android SDK
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Using the Traceview and dmtracedump platform tools
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Dmtracedump
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Microbenchmarks
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9. Alternative Testing Tactics
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9. Alternative Testing Tactics
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Code coverage
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Temperature converter code coverage
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Introducing Robotium
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Testing on the host's JVM
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Introducing Robolectric
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Google's march on shadows
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Introducing Fest
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Introducing Spoon
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Introducing Fork
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Index
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Index

Running AVDs from the command line

Wouldn't it be nice if we could run different AVDs from the command line and perhaps automate the way we run or script our tests?

By freeing the AVD from its UI window, we open a whole new world of automation and scripting possibilities.

Well, let's explore these alternatives.

Headless emulator

A headless emulator (its UI window is not displayed) comes in very handy when we run automated tests and nobody is looking at the window, or the interaction between the test runner and the application is so fast that we hardly see anything.

Also, it is worth mentioning that, sometimes, you can't understand why some tests fail until you see the interaction on the screen, so use your own judgment when selecting a running mode for your emulator.

One thing that we may have noticed while running AVDs is that their network communication ports are assigned at runtime, incrementing the last used port by 2 and starting with 5554. This is used to name the emulator and set its serial...

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