Testing Android with Open Source

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1. Testing Android
   Testing Android
   with
   with Open Source
   Open Source
   ~ Matthias Käppler ~
   ~ Matthias Käppler ~
   February 23rd, 2010
   

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2. 1h Workshop
   1h Workshop
   (1) Writing Android tests 5m
   (2) Writing Android tests: Example 15m
   (3) Build management / Maven 5m
   (4) Build management / Maven: Example 15m
   (5) Build automation / Hudson 5m
   (6) Build automation / Hudson: Example 15m
   

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3. Europe's leading local review site
   17M uniques
   I'm the Android guy at Qype.com!
   

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4. Android testing
   Android testing
   How do we write tests for Android?
   

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5. Android testing
   Android testing
   As usual! Android uses JUnit 3
   android.test:
   AndroidTestCase < junit.framework.TestCase
   InstrumentationTestCase < junit.framework.TestCase
   

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6. Android testing
   Android testing
   AndroidTestCase
   ApplicationTestCase
   ProviderTestCase2
   ServiceTestCase
   

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7. Android testing
   Android testing
   InstrumentationTestCase
   (SyncBaseInstrumentation)
   (SingleLaunchActivityTestCase)
   ActivityUnitTestCase
   ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2
   

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8. Android testing
   Android testing
   How do we run tests for Android?
   

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9. Android testing
   Android testing
   Using Instrumentation.
   

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10. Android testing
    Android testing
    Work it!
    

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11. Build management
    Build management
    Nice, we have tests now.
    But my build server
    doesn't click buttons.
    

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12. Build management
    Build management
    We need something that can run
    builds from the command line.
    

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13. Build management
    Build management
    Maven 2 does these sorts of things.
    (and MUCH more, in fact)
    

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14. Build management
    Build management
    Maven 2 is a build system.
    

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15. Build management
    Build management
    Maven 2 is a dependency
    management system.
    

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16. Build management
    Build management
    Maven 2 is a life-cycle
    management system.
    

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17. Build management
    Build management
    Maven 2 is a report and
    documentation generator.
    

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18. Build management
    Build management
    In fact: Maven 2 is a platform.
    

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19. Build management
    Build management
    There's a plugin for Android!
    maven-android-plugin
    

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20. Build management
    Build management
    Maven's central notion is the project.
    It's described by the POM.
    

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21. Android testing
    Android testing
    Let's have a look at one...
    

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22. Build automation
    Build automation
    Nice, we can now build and deploy our
    app from the command line.
    But we still have to do it manually.
    

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23. Build automation
    Build automation
    What we need is a build server, which
    automatically triggers builds.
    

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24. Build automation
    Build automation
    Hudson does these sorts of things.
    

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25. Build automation
    Build automation
    Hudson is a continuuous integration server. It can
    run builds when people commit pieces of work.
    This is extremely helpful for discovering
    software regressions early on.
    

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26. Build automation
    Build automation
    Hudson is a Java Web application.
    It consists of a single WAR.
    $ java -jar hudson.war
    

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27. Build automation
    Build automation
    Let's run it.
    

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28. More information
    More information
    maven.apache.org
    code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin
    hudson-ci.org
    

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