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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

Getting started with TDD

Briefly, Test-driven Development is the strategy of writing tests in parallel with the development process. These test cases are written in advance of the code that is supposed to satisfy them.

A single test is written, and then the code needed to satisfy the compilation of this test is written, then the behavior that the test decrees should exist is written. We continue writing tests and implementation until the full set of desired behaviors is checked by the tests.

This contrasts with other approaches to the development process, where the tests are written at the end when all the coding has been done.

Writing the tests in advance of the code that satisfies them has the following advantages:

  • Tests get written one way or another, while if the tests are left till the end it is highly probable that they will never be written
  • Developers take more responsibility for the quality of their work, when having to consider the tests as they code

Design decisions are taken in smaller...

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