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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784395339

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Gradle

Concepts

Android Development

Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

Java testing framework

The Java testing framework is the backbone of Android testing, and sometimes, you can get away without writing Android-specific code. This can be a good thing, because as we continue on our testing quest, you will notice that we deploy Android framework tests to a device, and this has an impact on the speed of our tests, that is, the speed we get feedback from a pass or a fail.

If you architect your app in a clever way, you can create pure Java classes that can be tested in isolation away from Android. The two main benefits of this are increased speed of feedback from test results, and also, to quickly plug together libraries and code snippets to create powerful test suites, you can use the near ten years of experience of other programmers doing Java testing.