Hi 'A. Elk' Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Yes I already use Robotium to drive these tests at a high level, and its these tests with which I am concerned. My application uses the Contacts database as a data source, and I really want to just mock that functionality out with test data so that I don't destroy my phones contact DB. It would also let me inject known data and 'boundary' case data into the DB for test sequences. Ian On Jan 24, 4:21 pm, "A. Elk" <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried using Robotium? It looks like the blog you're citing is > using a unit/functional test case class to do higher-level functional > testing of the content provider, and that's not what the Android test > cases are designed for. Robotium can run through a sequence of steps > to do a functional test, if what you want to do is test the Activity > and its relationship to the content provider. > > Keep in mind that I know nothing about your app, but *in general* I > would test an app by unit testing its individual POJOs (Plain Ol' Java > Obejcts), then its Android components (Activity, ContentProvider, and > so forth) using the unit/functional tests, and then its end-to-end > functionality using Robotium or similar. > > I call the test cases like ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 unit/ > functional tests because they're designed to do JUnit-style tests on a > class (each test is one path through one method), but they require > external non-injectable dependencies (they have to run in the Android > system) that violate strict unit test standards. They also take longer > to run, which is also a unit test no-no. > > On Jan 22, 11:52 pm, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've got an Activity which uses the Contact DB, and I'm looking to > > auto-test this. I see several solutions in the past, but one (http:// > > dtmilano.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-testing-contentprovider.html) > > provides a link to 'android-mock' which links to a commercial site, > > and another (by Tenacious33) is out of date. > > > Can anybody help me get android-mock, or is there an even better > > alternative? > > > Many Thanks > > Ian Hunter -- 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
