JUnit 4 + Android: Friends 4 Eva (AndroidListener Chicago, May 2015)

A quick look at the benefits of using the Android JUnit4 runner. Links to code and other fun stuff at the end!

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1. JUnit4 + Android: Friends 4 Eva Ellen Shapiro AndroidListener Chicago, May 2015
2. JUnit4: What is? — A huge, open-source testing library for Java — Has subclassable test runners
3. Testing: Ye Olde Way — ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2<T extends Activity> — Name of method to be tested starts with test — If something is temporarily broken, either delete it or comment it out. — Testing different data requires a separate test calling a private helper.
4. Testing: Ye JUnit4 Way — Uses annotations instead of naming conventions — Allows tests to be marked as ignored — Runner has subclasses allowing all sorts of fancy things — Allows you to have tests skipped based on an assumption*
5. Testing: Ye JUnit4 Way — Uses annotations instead of naming conventions — Allows tests to be marked as ignored — Runner has subclasses allowing all sorts of fancy things — Allows you to have tests skipped based on an assumption* * - in theory
6. JUnit4 Benefits — Tests don't reference an activity unless they need to — Name things in a way that makes sense to YOU — Run the same test many times with different params
7. JUnit4 Drawbacks — Assume handling is not presently working. — FlakyTest does not work with JUnit4 tests. — You have to static import a lot more stuff.
8. DEMO
9. Question Time!
10. Links Galore! — AndroidListenerExamples: https://github.com/ designatednerd/AndroidListenerExamples — User Guide: https://code.google.com/p/android-test- kit/wiki/AndroidJUnitRunnerUserGuide — Google Sample: https://github.com/googlesamples/ android-testing/tree/master/testrunner/ AndroidJunitRunnerSample — JUnit Docs: http://junit.org/javadoc/latest/ index.html