There is another big issue: there is absolutely NO guarantee that any of the classes from android.jar would run outside of an Android environment. They could rely on native libraries or special initializations only provided by the full Android environment. Even if a class runs now on top of Java SE, it could break in a future version as the implementation changes.
Android is not Java, the target is Android devices, not JVMs. On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't really say I agree that unit tests should only be run on the target > platform, although of course it does need to be tested on the platform. A > lot of unit tests are pretty darn useful for catching bugs outside of a > Dalvik environment. I often write Java code on one platform, say Windows, > and then test it out on Linux, perfectly natural. > Also, I like to run my debugger in my IDE but if I tie into in the > most trivial of Android classes, I can't do that anymore, a run-time > exception appears. > > Maybe since I'm not using Eclipse, the Android team's way of building > doesn't seem as necessary or productive to me. > Shane > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Romain Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Everything should, and now must, run on the emulator or on a device. This >> is the only way to guarantee a program works (if only to run it on Dalvik >> rather than a stock JVM.) For what it's worth, that's how we run all of our >> tests in the Android team. >> >> We have special support for tests, especially instrumented tests in the >> framework. You can refer to the samples (apidemos) to see how they're set >> up. >> >> On Sep 27, 2008 12:30 AM, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Romain Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > How so? Aren't you ru... >> >> Some I do and some I don't. I've got the Masa plugins (for Maven builds) >> setup to do both. By simply hooking a value object like ContentValues into >> one of my classes, it now becomes untestable as a normal unit test, as I now >> get a runtime exception on ContentValues initialization. >> > > > > > -- Romain Guy www.curious-creature.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
