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gary lucas
989 PointsAndroid / IOS Unit testing / mocks / TDD / BDD etc
Hi Ben, just wondering if there's any plans to introduce testing into any of the tutorials?
There's quite a few tutorials out there for android, but very few of them really take into account any reasonable level of automated testing or TDD / BDD principles.
My limited experience with Mobile Dev at this point has shown me that much of the mobile development going on just doesn't take any of this into account and I think the community could use some good tutorials in the area :)
5 Answers
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherHi @Gary,
Great question. I haven't done any true TDD for Android myself, but I have done some automated testing using Robotium and Roboelectric, and I do plan on covering that in the future. There's also a new framework called FEST that looks very promising. It's by Jake Wharton who works at Square and wrote ActionBarSherlock, a super popular open-source Android library.
Side note: I'll be looking for some good Android TDD talks this year at conferences and will certainly pull in anything helpful.
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher@Gary Thanks for your feedback! We will keep this in mind when planning the next set of courses.
gary lucas
989 PointsYour welcome, I haven't seen much in the way of decomposing and testing mobile applications (and I've looked, though not as much as I could).
It could be a good way of differentiating your products and getting more experienced devs onboard, I've found that basically someone either 'gets' why TDD is good and has learned how, or they just have no idea and need a kickstart to get them going.
Given i'm from a dotNet background that may or may not hold true in the java world.
Joshua Pinter
1,172 PointsHi Ben,
Just curious to see if there's been any updates to this topic or if a particular testing framework has emerged as the leader in Android.
Many thanks!
Josh
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherGood question! There is nothing new that I'm aware of, though I haven't heard or read much about testing frameworks lately. I still see a lot of Robotium and FEST (but haven't used FEST myself yet).
Joshua Pinter
1,172 PointsThanks Ben. FEST looks mighty interesting. I'll have a look and see what I come up with.
I also think including a solid course on Android testing as part of the Build An Android App program would be great, too.
Cheers!
