IMO, it's not so much that it's not TestNG, it's that it's Junit 3. 4 would have been fine.
Android's still got an incredibly obtuse approach to testing with the stub exceptions and pushing you toward running on-device. So, we work around by pulling all our logic out into non-android classes and test those using standard junit 4 and mockito. Add in robolectric with no config [@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class) @Config(manifest = Config.NONE)] when you have to. Picasso, Retrofit, Rx Java, Otto, Dagger -- yep, use them all. Everything you've said about robolectric and android studio is true, from what I understand. I always build on the command line with maven (yeah, I know I'm behind). I have a friend who has claimed he's cracked the Android Studio+robolectric barrier, but he hasn't told me how yet. Pat. On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 4:13:51 PM UTC-5, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Rakesh <rakesh.m...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Crap, Google still only support Junit3. > > > Sadly, I have to bear the blame for that. > > In the early days of Android (I should say the first days of Android), the > director of engineering came to me and asked me "Do you think we should use > TestNG for Android?". > > I was not prepared for this question so I told him I'd get back to him. I > spent the next few days going over the TestNG code base (that was circa > 2007 so TestNG was just three years old). Obviously, I knew that code base > very well but I had written it with server testing in mind, certainly not > with the intent of running on a mobile device, especially on an OS that we > were still in the process of writing. > > After a couple of days, I got back to him and I told him "No, I don't > think we should make TestNG the standard on Android, I just didn't write it > with this in mind and I'm afraid that it just won't perform well". > > So we went with JUnit 3. > > I'm sorry. > > -- > Cédric > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
