I've come to use Unit Tests organically. Certainly I don't write unit tests first, I write tests to make sure what I've coded works the way it's supposed to. I also add more tests whenever I find bugs.
Of course not everything can be unit tested, but most things can be. I find it faster now writing a test, than opening the app manually and adding test code that can be triggered by say, tapping on a temporary button on the screen. Unit tests help you with that. Getting unit tests to work on Android was a bit of a pain in the beginning so I just had my own "testing classes" that I would invoke in the UI, but this was also slow, so I took the time to see how the whole thing worked on android (InstrumentationTests, etc) and I'm very glad I did. One way or another it's good to have code making sure the simple things work. It'll save you a lot of time, you'll be testing anyways in the end, otherwise how can you know things are working properly? On Mar 11, 7:40 am, Yahel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Not really Android specific but : > > I've just read Bob Kern's answer to a vaillant 14 years old programmer > who wants to write a game for Android. > > Bob's advice is good as always and he states : > "Learn how to test effectively. Use unit tests for as much of your > system as you can. Go to junit.org for more information. If you write > your tests first, you'll clarify what you want to do, and it all gets > much easier. But testing is also a skill that needs to be developed." > > Now I've been a developper for 10 years, mostly solo works, and I have > never ever used UnitTesting, ever. Be it in VB, C++, PHP, ASP, Ruby > and now Android. > > Do you guys really use it in your ANDROID apps at all ? > Do you really feel it makes a (significant) difference in your > code(app) in the end ? > > From a conversation from the beginning of the week I'm now having to > learn the full xml RFC, so please don't try to hard to convince me, > I'm beginning to feel dizzy already :D > > Sorry for the OOST. > > Yahel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
