Improve your Android applications through intensive testing and debugging
About This Book
- Focus on Android instrumentation testing to ensure full application coverage
- Apply testing techniques and utilize tools to improve Android application development
- Build intensively tested and bug free Android applications
Who This Book Is For
If you are an Android developer looking to test your applications or optimize your application development process, then this book is for you. No previous experience in application testing is required.
What You Will Learn
- Apply testing techniques and utilize tools to improve Android application development
- Get to grips with the nuances of testing on Android, including how to architect an application to facilitate better testing
- Explore the Android instrumentation testing framework to optimize your activities, services, content providers, and usage of other Android components
- Understand different development methodologies including Test-driven Development and Behavior-driven Development
- Apply the continuous integration technique for ultimate application quality control
- Improve application performance by analyzing the results returned from performance tests
- Expose your application to a wide range of conditions and configurations to simulate real-life network conditions and detect problems in the application
- Explore further tools to improve application quality such as micro benchmarks and code coverage
In Detail
This book is a practical introduction to readily available techniques, frameworks, and tools to thoroughly test your Android applications and improve project development.
You will learn the Java testing framework, how to create a test case and debug it. Next, you'll be walked through using the Android SDK to test using the ActivityTestCase and ActivityUnitTest classes as well as discussing popular testing libraries. Through examples you will test files, databases, ContentProviders, exceptions, services, and test your app using Espresso. You will discover how to manage your Android testing environment using Android emulators, deep dive into how adb and the emulator can super charge your testing automation, and also test user interactions with monkeyrunner. You will be guided through different testing methodologies including Test-driven Development and Behavior-driven Development and will learn how to perform Unit and Functional testing applying them to your Android projects. You will also use continuous integration techniques for ultimate application quality control using Gradle and Jenkins.
By the end of the book, you'll be looking through alternative testing tactics including Fest and Spoon to build upon and expand your Android testing range and finesse.
Paul Blundell
Paul Blundell is an aspiring software craftsman and senior Android developer at Novoda. Before Novoda, he worked at AutoTrader and Thales, with apps that he released racking up over one million downloads. A strong believer in software craftsmanship, SOLID architecture, clean code, and testing, Paul has used this methodology to successfully nurture and create many Android applications. These include the Tesco launcher app, which was preinstalled for the recently released Hudl2 tablet; MUBI, a unique film streaming service; and the AutoTrader UK car search app. If anyone wants to provide feedback, you can always tweet to him @blundell_apps. He also likes to write, so you can find more material at http://blog.blundellapps.com/.
