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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

Introducing Spoon


Device fragmentation is always talked about around Android and it is something you should be considerate of. The number of different devices and form factors means you really need to be confident that your application runs well, on all the aforementioned. Spoon is right here to help; Spoon (http://square.github.io/spoon) is an open-source project that gives you a test runner that allows instrumentation tests to be run on all connected devices in parallel. It also allows you to take screenshots as the tests are running. Not only does this speed up your testing and feedback cycle, it also allows you to potentially visually see where tests went wrong.

Spoon can be added to your project with this dependency:

testCompile com.squareup.spoon:spoon-client:1.1.2

You can then take screenshots inside your tests, allowing you to see the state of your application when you are also asserting behavior:

Spoon.screenshot(activity, "max_celcius_to_fahrenheit");

If you take the screenshot right...

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