Android Application Testing Guide -- Table of Contents -- Android Application Testing Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Testing -- Brief history -- Software bugs -- How bugs severely affect your projects -- Why, what, how, and when to test -- What to test -- Activity lifecycle events -- Database and filesystem operations -- Physical characteristics of the device -- Types of tests -- Unit tests -- The test fixture -- The setUp() method -- The tearDown() method -- Test preconditions -- The actual tests -- Mock objects -- UI tests -- Eclipse and other IDE support -- Integration tests -- Functional or acceptance tests -- Test case scenario -- Performance tests -- System tests -- Android testing framework -- Instrumentation -- Test targets -- Summary -- 2. Testing on Android -- JUnit -- Creating the Android main project -- Creating the Android test project -- Package explorer -- Creating a test case -- Special methods -- Test annotations -- Running the tests -- Running all tests from Eclipse -- Running a single test case from Eclipse -- Running from the emulator -- Running tests from the command line -- Running all tests -- Running tests from a specific test case -- Running a specific test by name -- Running specific tests by category -- Creating a custom annotation -- Running performance tests -- Dry run -- Debugging tests -- Other command-line options -- Summary -- 3. Building Blocks on the Android SDK -- The demonstration application -- Assertions in depth.

Custom messages -- Static imports -- View assertions -- Even more assertions -- The TouchUtils class -- Mock Objects -- MockContext overview -- The IsolatedContext class -- Alternate route to file and database operations -- The MockContentResolver class -- The TestCase base class -- The no-argument constructor -- The given name constructor -- The setName() method -- The AndroidTestCase base class -- The assertActivityRequiresPermission() method -- Description -- Example -- The assertReadingContentUriRequiresPermission method -- Description -- Example -- The assertWritingContentUriRequiresPermission() method -- Description -- Example -- Instrumentation -- The ActivityMonitor inner class -- Example -- The InstrumentationTestCase class -- The launchActivity and launchActivityWithIntent method -- The sendKeys and sendRepeatedKeys methods -- The runTestOnUiThread helper method -- The ActivityTestCase class -- The scrubClass method -- The ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 class -- The constructor -- The setUp method -- The tearDown method -- The testPreconditions method -- The ProviderTestCase2 class -- The constructor -- Example -- The ServiceTestCase -- The constructor -- The TestSuiteBuilder.FailedToCreateTests class -- Using external libraries in test projects -- Summary -- 4. Test Driven Development -- Getting started with TDD -- Writing a test case -- Running all tests -- Refactoring the code -- What is the advantage? -- Understanding the requirements -- Creating a sample project-the Temperature Converter -- The list of requirements -- User interface concept design -- Creating the projects -- Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityTests project -- Creating the fixture -- Test preconditions -- Creating the user interface -- Testing the existence of the user interface components -- Getting the IDs defined -- Translating requirements to tests.

Empty fields -- View properties -- Screen layout -- Adding functionality -- Temperature conversion -- The EditNumber class -- TemperatureConverter unit tests -- The EditNumber tests -- The TemperatureChangeWatcher class -- More TemperatureConverter tests -- The InputFilter tests -- Viewing our final application -- Summary -- 5. Android Testing Environment -- Creating Android Virtual Devices -- Running AVDs from the command line -- Headless emulator -- Disabling the keyguard -- Cleaning up -- Terminating the emulator -- Additional emulator configurations -- Simulating network conditions -- Additional qemu options -- Running monkey -- Client-server monkey -- Test scripting with monkeyrunner -- Getting test screenshots -- Record and playback -- Summary -- 6. Behavior Driven Development -- Brief history -- Given, when, then -- FitNesse -- Running FitNesse from the command line -- Creating a TemperatureConverterTests subwiki -- Adding child pages to the subwiki -- Adding the acceptance test fixture -- Adding the supporting test classes -- GivWenZen -- Creating the test scenario -- Summary -- 7. Testing Recipes -- Android Unit tests -- Testing activities and applications -- Applications and preferences -- The RenamingMockContext class -- The TemperatureConverterApplicationTests class -- Testing activities -- Testing files, databases, and ContentProviders -- The BrowserProvider tests -- Testing exceptions -- Testing local and remote services -- Extensive use of mock objects -- Importing libraries -- The testTextChanged test -- Introducing Hamcrest -- Hamcrest matchers -- The hasToString matcher -- Testing Views in isolation -- Testing parsers -- Android assets -- The parser activity -- The parser test -- Testing for memory leaks -- Summary -- 8. Continuous Integration -- Building Android applications manually using Ant -- Git-the fast version control system.

Creating a local git repository -- Continuous Integration with Hudson -- Installing and configuring Hudson -- Creating the jobs -- Obtaining Android test results -- Summary -- 9. Performance Testing and Profiling -- Ye Olde Logge method -- Performance tests in Android SDK -- Launching the performance test -- Creating the LaunchPerformanceBase instrumentation -- Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityLaunchPerformance class -- Running the tests -- Using the Traceview and dmtracedump platform tools -- Microbenchmarks -- Caliper microbenchmarks -- Creating the TemperatureConverterBenchmark project -- Running caliper -- Summary -- 10. Alternative Testing Tactics -- Building Android from source -- Code coverage -- EMMA features -- System requirements -- Downloading the Android source code -- Installing repo -- Creating the working copy -- The Building Steps -- TemperatureConverter code coverage -- Generating code coverage analysis report -- Covering the restoring the instance state -- Covering the exceptions -- Bypassing access restrictions -- Covering the options menu -- The undocumented Ant coverage target -- Introducing Robotium -- Downloading Robotium -- Configuring the project -- Creating the test cases -- The testFahrenheitToCelsiusConversion() test -- The testOnCreateOptionsMenu() revisited -- Testing on host's JVM -- Creating the TemperatureConverterJVMTest project -- Comparing the performance gain -- Adding Android to the picture -- Introducing Robolectric -- Installing Robolectric -- Creating a new Java project -- Writing some tests -- Summary -- Index.