Learning Android Application Testing : Improve Your Android Applications Through Intensive Testing and Debugging.

Intro -- Learning Android Application Testing -- Table of Contents -- Learning Android Application Testing -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Testing -- Why, what, how, and when to test? -- What to test -- Activity lifecycle events -- Database and filesystem operations -- Physical characteristics of the device -- Types of tests -- Unit tests -- The setUp() method -- The tearDown() method -- Outside the test method -- Inside the test method -- Mock objects -- Integration tests -- UI tests -- Functional or acceptance tests -- Test case scenario -- Performance tests -- System tests -- Android Studio and other IDE support -- Java testing framework -- Android testing framework -- Instrumentation -- Gradle -- Test targets -- Creating the Android project -- Package explorer -- Creating a test case -- Test annotations -- Running the tests -- Running all tests from Android Studio -- Running a single test case from your IDE -- Running from the emulator -- Running tests from the command line -- Running all tests -- Running tests from a specific test case -- Running a specific test by name -- Running specific tests by category -- Running tests using Gradle -- Creating a custom annotation -- Running performance tests -- Dry run -- Debugging tests -- Other command-line options -- Summary -- 2. Understanding Testing with the Android SDK -- The demonstration application -- Assertions in depth -- Custom messages -- Static imports -- View assertions.

Even more assertions -- The TouchUtils class -- Mock objects -- An overview of MockContext -- The IsolatedContext class -- Alternate route to file and database operations -- The MockContentResolver class -- The TestCase base class -- The default constructor -- The given name constructor -- The setName() method -- The AndroidTestCase base class -- The assertActivityRequiresPermission() method -- Description -- Example -- The assertReadingContentUriRequiresPermission method -- Description -- Example -- The assertWritingContentUriRequiresPermission() method -- Description -- Example -- Instrumentation -- The ActivityMonitor inner class -- Example -- The InstrumentationTestCase class -- The launchActivity and launchActivityWithIntent methods -- The sendKeys and sendRepeatedKeys methods -- The runTestOnUiThread helper method -- The ActivityTestCase class -- The scrubClass method -- The ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 class -- The constructor -- The setUp method -- The tearDown method -- The ProviderTestCase2&lt -- T&gt -- class -- The constructor -- An example -- The ServiceTestCase&lt -- T&gt -- -- The constructor -- The TestSuiteBuilder.FailedToCreateTests class -- Using libraries in test projects -- Summary -- 3. Baking with Testing Recipes -- Android unit tests -- Testing activities and applications -- Mocking applications and preferences -- The RenamingMockContext class -- Mocking contexts -- Testing activities -- Testing files, databases, and content providers -- The BrowserProvider tests -- Testing exceptions -- Testing local and remote services -- Extensive use of mock objects -- Importing libraries -- Mockito usage example -- The EditNumber filter tests -- Testing views in isolation -- Testing parsers -- Android assets -- The parser test -- Testing for memory usage -- Testing with Espresso -- Summary.

4. Managing Your Android Testing Environment -- Creating Android Virtual Devices -- Running AVDs from the command line -- Headless emulator -- Disabling the keyguard -- Cleaning up -- Terminating the emulator -- Additional emulator configurations -- Simulating network conditions -- Speeding up your AVD with HAXM -- Alternatives to the AVD -- Running monkey -- The client-server monkey -- Test scripting with monkeyrunner -- Getting test screenshots -- Record and playback -- Summary -- 5. Discovering Continuous Integration -- Building Android applications manually using Gradle -- Git - the fast version control system -- Creating a local Git repository -- Continuous integration with Jenkins -- Installing and configuring Jenkins -- Creating the jobs -- Obtaining Android test results -- Summary -- 6. Practicing Test-driven Development -- Getting started with TDD -- Writing a test case -- Running all tests -- Refactoring the code -- Advantages of TDD -- Understanding the requirements -- Creating a sample project - the temperature converter -- List of requirements -- User interface concept design -- Creating the project -- Creating a Java module -- Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityTests class -- Creating the fixture -- Creating the user interface -- Testing the existence of the user interface components -- Getting the IDs defined -- Translating requirements to tests -- Empty fields -- View properties -- Screen layout -- Adding functionality -- Temperature conversion -- The EditNumber class -- The TemperatureConverter unit tests -- The EditNumber tests -- The TemperatureChangeWatcher class -- More TemperatureConverter tests -- The InputFilter tests -- Viewing our final application -- Summary -- 7. Behavior-driven Development -- Given, When, and Then -- FitNesse -- Running FitNesse from the command line -- Creating a TemperatureConverterTests subwiki.

Adding child pages to the subwiki -- Adding the acceptance test fixture -- Adding the supporting test classes -- GivWenZen -- Creating the test scenario -- Summary -- 8. Testing and Profiling Performance -- Ye Olde Logge method -- Timing logger -- Performance tests in Android SDK -- Launching the performance test -- Creating the LaunchPerformanceBase instrumentation -- Creating the TemperatureConverterActivityLaunchPerformance class -- Running the tests -- Using the Traceview and dmtracedump platform tools -- Dmtracedump -- Microbenchmarks -- Caliper microbenchmarks -- Benchmarking the temperature converter -- Running Caliper -- Summary -- 9. Alternative Testing Tactics -- Code coverage -- Jacoco features -- Temperature converter code coverage -- Generating code coverage analysis report -- Covering the exceptions -- Introducing Robotium -- Adding Robotium -- Creating the test cases -- The testFahrenheitToCelsiusConversion() test -- Testing between Activities -- Testing on the host's JVM -- Comparing the performance gain -- Adding Android to the picture -- Introducing Robolectric -- Installing Robolectric -- Adding resources -- Writing some tests -- Google's march on shadows -- Introducing Fest -- Introducing Spoon -- Introducing Fork -- Summary -- Index.

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