Traversing the Test Pyramid for Android Development

Dubinsky and Jigish walk through the testing practices followed by an Agile Team while building Mobile Applications.

In this talk they traverse the Testing pyramid focussing on the importance of the balance of Unit/Functional automated tests.
They go on to talk about how to integrate all of these tests with your CI server to deliver high quality applications.

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1. Traversing Test Pyramid for Android development Dubinsky Dee Soares Jigish Chawda
2. Agenda Test Pyramid Why TDD? Approaches of unit testing. Problems and solutions for unit testing. Sample tests. Functional Testing – overview. Various frameworks and approaches followed. Functional Test - demo. Continuous Integration
3. Test Pyramid Functional Tests Integration Tests Unit Tests
4. Why Testing for Android? Stable and better quality applications. Apps are as important as the websites. Ubiquitous.
5. Overview of Unit Testing in Android Unit Test Business logic View validations Behavior
6. Android Test Framework - Problems…. Application ACTIVITY POJO • Low test coverage • UI interactions & data binding untested. • Framework runs on DVM • Time consuming
7. How can we solve these problems ? ACTIVITY POJO Virtual Machine JVM .class RED GREEN REFACTOR
8. Let’s have a look at a few tests.
9. Overview of Functional Testing Actual Application Business Use Case Visual Appearance Realistic Mobile Challenges Fragmentation Release
10. Functional Testing Tool Expectation Business language Expressive Keep up with times Robust Realism CI Support
11. Functional Test : Approaches Instrumented technique Non- Instrumented technique
12. Calabash Robotium Functional Testing : Instrumented Approach Android Testing Framework • DSL • Flexible APIs • WebView support. • Support iOS & Android • Continuous Integration
13. A Demo - Calabash-android
14. Functional Testing : Non Instrumentation Not restricted to one App Custom Components External Interactions Hardware Drivers Tools UI Automator, HoneyDew, Appium
15. Continuous Integration CI BOX Pass Fail
16. References http://robolectric.org/ http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html http://developer.android.com/tools/testing/testing_android.html https://github.com/androidbootcamp/RobolectricDemo/tree/ mds_demo https://github.com/calabash/calabash-android https://github.com/amplify-education/honeydew
17. You can reach us at Jigish Chawda: Twitter: @jigishchawda Github: https://github.com/jigishchawda Dubinsky Dee Soares: Twitter: @dubinskysoares Github: https://github.com/dubinskysoares