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Gradle for Android

You're reading from   Gradle for Android Automate the build process for your Android projects with Gradle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783986828
Length 172 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Unit tests

Having well-written unit tests in your project does not only assure quality, it also makes it easy to check if new code breaks any functionality. Android Studio and the Gradle Android plugin have native support for unit tests, but you need to configure a few things before you can use them.

JUnit

JUnit is an extremely popular unit testing library that has been around for over a decade. It makes it easy to write tests while making sure that they are also easy to read. Keep in mind that these particular unit tests are only useful for testing business logic and not code that is related to the Android SDK.

Before you can start writing JUnit tests for your Android project, you need to create a directory for the tests. By convention, this directory is called test and it should be on the same level as your main directory. The directory structure should look like this:

app
└─── src
     ├─── main
     │    ├─&...
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