Testing Android with Open Source

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

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

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

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

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Android testing Android testing AndroidTestCase ApplicationTestCase ProviderTestCase2 ServiceTestCase

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

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

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Android testing Android testing Using Instrumentation.

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Android testing Android testing Work it!

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

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

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

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Build management Build management Maven 2 is a build system.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Build automation Build automation Hudson does these sorts of things.

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

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Build automation Build automation Let's run it.

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