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14.14. Testing Android Application Code

Testing Android Application code can be done in a unit test fashion with rich junit support as part of the Android SDK as well as integration type testing called instrumentation testing.

14.14.1. Unit tests

The Android Maven Plugin includes the execution of the Surefire plugin and as such unit tests can be included in the project like in any other project. The default path for test classes in the Eclipse and therefore Android Development Toolkit is test and therefore Maven has to be configured to access code from there with the configuration

Adding the test folder to the build configuration. 

<build>
    <testSourceDirectory>test</testSourceDirectory>
    ...

Alternatively the Maven conventions can be implemented by moving the source code for the application and the test source code into src/main/java and src/test/java and reconfiguring the Eclipse project files.

14.14.2. Instrumentation tests

Instrumentation tests are integration tests bundled into an application that run on the emulator or device and interact with another deployed application to test the behaviour. The common setup to run instrumentation tests would be two parallel projects, one for the application and one for the instrumentation tests. These modules are tied together as modules of a parent pom.

The Android Maven Plugin samples contains the morseflash as well as theapidemos-15 examples for a project set up in this manner. The setup of the instrumentation test application with the Android Maven Plugin is the same as for a normal application with the added dependency to the application that needs to be tested. It is important to add the type of apk to the dependency to allow the Android Maven Plugin to find the Android package of the application.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.simpligility.android</groupId>
    <artifactId>intents</artifactId>
    <version>0.1</version>
    <type>apk</type>
</dependency>

Instrumentation test execution supports a large number of configuration parameters that are displayed in the plugin configuration layout in Available parameters for instrumentation testing.

Available parameters for instrumentation testing. 

<test>
  <skip>true|false|auto</skip>
  <instrumentationPackage>packageName</instrumentationPackage>
  <instrumentationRunner>className</instrumentationRunner>
  <debug>true|false</debug>
  <coverage>true|false</coverage>
  <logonly>true|false</logonly>  avd
  <testsize>small|medium|large</testsize>
  <createreport>true|false</createreport>
  <classes>
    <class>your.package.name.YourTestClass</class>
  </classes>
  <packages>
    <package>your.package.name</package>
  </packages>
</test>

Unless createreport is set to false the instrumentation test run will produce junit xml compatible test output in the build output folder for test results target/surefire-reports for each device or emulator the tests run on.












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