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Learning Android Application Testing

You're reading from   Learning Android Application Testing Improve your Android applications through intensive testing and debugging

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784395339
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Testing with the Android SDK 3. Baking with Testing Recipes 4. Managing Your Android Testing Environment 5. Discovering Continuous Integration 6. Practicing Test-driven Development 7. Behavior-driven Development 8. Testing and Profiling Performance 9. Alternative Testing Tactics Index

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In this chapter, we dissected the available alternatives for testing the performance measures of our application by benchmarking and profiling our code.

Some options that should be provided by the Android SDK are not available at the time of writing this book, and there is no way to implement Android PerformanceTestCases because some of the code is hidden in the SDK. We visited and analyzed some other valid alternatives.

Among these alternatives, we found that we can use simple log statements or more sophisticated code that extends instrumentation.

Subsequently, we analyzed profiling alternatives and described and exemplified the use of traceview and dmtracedump.

Finally, you discovered Caliper, a microbenchmarking tool that has native support for Android. However, we introduced its most basic usage, and postponed more specific Android and Dalvik VM usage for the next chapter.

To be able to quantify your testing efforts in the next chapter, we will be executing coverage reports on our...

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