Wednesday, April 25, 2012

All you wanted to know about Android Testing, but were too affraid to ask

I will be presenting the Introduction to Android Testing tutorial at OSCON 2012. It will give you an overview of current methodologies and tools available on Android. This tutorial will also introduce Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and Continuous Integration, techniques that every serious development project should at least consider.

If you are planning to attend you can use the following 20% off discount code while registering: OS12FOS.
Hope to see you there.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

android: testing library projects

The latest Android SDK Tools (Revision 17 or greater) features several fixes related with library projects and the way the R class is now generated, and the way custom attributes for custom views are handled. This opens a greater number of possibilities using library projects and sooner or later you will be facing the need of testing the library.


Following there is a quick reference of how to do it for a sample library project called AndroidLibrary and its corresponding test project AndroidLibraryTest.

Create library project

Set properties to indicate it is a Library

Create test project and set the properties to reference the library

Set the Target package to this same test project

Run the tests