This looks promising: https://github.com/dthommes/JUnit4Android/wiki

I'd quit worrying about what you can or can't do in the IDE fairly quickly
though.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote:

> you know, I actually had an inkling this is what happened but I chose
> to say nothing because I had no proof.
>
> However, I don't blame you because its 2014 and no one moved to JUnit
> 4 in the intervening years! Thats what I'm really pissed about. We all
> start projects with the best tools available at the time. That does
> not mean we stay with them forever!
>
> Rakesh
>
> On 1 October 2014 22:13, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Rakesh <[email protected]>
> 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.
> >
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