The First Test

It's time for testing. 0:00 Over in the project pane, 0:02 let's create a new test class by right-clicking on the test folder. 0:03 New > Java Class, and let's name it MainActivityTest. 0:10 And let's choose to add this and all other new files to gif. 0:20 Now let's create our first Android test to test the functionality of our edit text. 0:26 Let's create a new test method @Test public void and 0:32 let's name it editTextUpdatesTextView and 0:39 make sure it throws an exception. 0:45 Let's start this method by commenting and the three As of testing. 0:53 First, we arrange the objects under test, then we act on those objects and 0:57 finally we assert that we get the expected result. 1:04 Starting with the Arrange section, 1:11 let's first create a new string variable named given string. 1:13 And set it equal to test123. 1:19 Then we need to call set text on our edit text and pass in our new string, 1:25 but before we can do that, our edit text needs to exist and before our 1:31 edit text can exist, main activity needs to have already been created. 1:36 Sounds like we need an instance of our activity. 1:42 Let's create a new main activity field at the top of the class. 1:45 Main activity and we'll call it activity. 1:50 Then let's create a new @Before method to set up our main activity. 1:55 Let's name it setUp public void setUp and brackets. 2:02 Next, inside our setUp method let's initialize our field 2:10 to a new main activity object. 2:14 Activity = new MainActivity. 2:15 Then on the next line, let's call activity.onCreate and 2:20 pass a null for the saved instance state. 2:27 Saved instance state is always null the first time you start an app, so 2:30 passing a null is no problem. 2:34 Now that we've initialized our MainActivity object and 2:38 called onCreate, our edit text should exist and 2:41 we should be able to access it by using activity.edittext. 2:45 Getting back to the Arrange section of our test, let's update our edit text 2:49 by calling activity.editText.setText and 2:55 passing in givenString. 3:07 Nice. 3:10 Moving on to the act section, we need a way to trigger our editText. 3:11 Let's see how it's done in the activity, but instead of navigating to the activity, 3:16 let's right click on main activity test up here and select split vertically. 3:21 Then let's close the copy on the left side and 3:28 now we can easily see main activity and main activity test at the same time. 3:32 Looking over at main activity, if we want our text view to update, 3:39 it looks like we need to call on editor action and 3:45 pass in an action ID of editorInfo.IME_Action_Done. 3:49 And luckily, we can do that pretty easily. 3:55 Back in the act section of our test, 3:59 just type activity.editText.onEditorAction and 4:03 pass in editorInfo.IME_Action_Done. 4:11 And that takes care of the act section. 4:17 Now let's close MainActivity to give the whole screen back to our test. 4:19 Finally, we just need to assert that our text view was 4:25 updated with the correct text. 4:28 Let's start by creating a new string variable named actualString. 4:30 To store what's actually in our text view, and 4:38 let's set it equal to activity.textView.getText().toString();. 4:43 Then we just need to assert that our given string is equal to our actual string. 4:51 On the next line let's type assertEquals and the parentheses 4:57 and then use Alt+Enter to add the static import, and 5:05 let's scroll a bit to choose one of these from the org.Junit package 5:10 to stay consistent with our other imports. 5:17 Then we just need to include our expected value, given string 5:20 and then our actual value, actual string, add a semi colon and there we go. 5:27 In the next video, we'll run our test and see what happens. 5:34