Testing your workers
Testing the code is very important. It ensures that our code works as expected and it also helps us to catch bugs early. We will be writing tests for our workers in this section. To test our workers, we first need to set up WorkManager testing dependencies with the following steps:
- Let us head over to the
libs.versions.toml
file and add the following dependency to thelibraries
section:work-testing = { module = "androidx.work:work-testing", version.ref = "work" }
Sync your project. This will add the
work-testing
artifact that helps in testing workers to our project. - Next, we need to add the dependency to our app level
build.gradle.kts
file:androidTestImplementation(libs.work.testing)
We have used
androidTestImplementation
because we will be writing our tests in theandroidTest
folder. Do a Gradle sync to add the dependency to our project. We are now ready to start writing our tests.
Since our PetsSyncWorker
class requires some...