By the way, can Instrumentation be used for black-box testing? I heard that Instrumentation is a service and part of an application. That means test code cannot be run on release mode.
I would really appreciate if you post any link to show example for this. Thank you for your information. On Jul 14, 11:52 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use Instrumentation, which allows test code to run inside the app, > so it can directly access views and retrieve them with things like > View.findViewById(). > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:55 AM, AndroidAutoTest > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am investigating to improve test engine for automating android > > platform. > > The test engine I developed controls UI component by the absolute > > coordinate of the screen, not by its control ID. > > For example, if I want to click a button "A", I can send a command to > > click the button by tapping the screen by the specified coordinate. > > > However, if the location of the button is changed due to UI change, I > > have to change my script accordingly so that it taps on the right > > coordinate to press the button. > > > Is there any other method to control the UI component by its ID or > > name, not by tapping the absolute coordinate? > > > For example, if I can send a command to press a button "A" by its > > name, the script would press the button successfully no matter where > > the button is located. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
