I know that mcomella was working on an etherpad with ideas to improve our
testing documentation; has any progress been made on that? I feel like it
would be great to include these links in whatever wiki page people refer to
when writing new tests :)

Margaret


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Chenxia Liu <[email protected]> wrote:

> As part of the testing framework rework (bug 910791), and partly because
> it's just overdue, we've upgraded the Robotium jar from 3.6 to 4.2.
>
> There are a lot of good changes in the new version (most saliently, better
> waiting/timing methods and UI manipulation) - see the changelog for
> specific details [1].
>
> Since we haven't ported the old tests to using the new APIs yet (bug
> 912590), when writing tests, first take a look at the changelog or the new
> API Javadocs [2] to see if there's a proper method for doing what you need
> (especially for timing or waiting in tests), and use that instead of
> existing (probably hacky) code in the tests.
>
> Thanks!
> Chenxia
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/Changelog
> [2] http://robotium.googlecode.com/svn/doc/index.html
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