Wish Unit Testing

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PawelS

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• Aug 7, 2014

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Is there any unit testing feature planned for b4a ?

The code could be converted to java and then executed on the host pc. A simple runner could be added to the IDE or even as a separate software (it could even be console based) which would execute only selected test Subs and return the results.
I know there are workaorunds, but it would be great if we could test non-gui-related logic in classes or subs without the need of using emulator or actual device.

Or maybe somebody has invented a way to do this using what we have - If yes, please share your experience.

 

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• Aug 8, 2014

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+1

 

Erel

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• Aug 8, 2014

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It is not possible to run Android code without the Android OS. Even non-UI code is based on Android specific APIs.

The rapid debugger does allow you to run code without installing a new app on the device each time.

 

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• Aug 12, 2014

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Here http://developer.android.com/training/activity-testing/activity-ui-testing.html and here http://developer.android.com/training/activity-testing/activity-unit-testing.html

Unit testing, github, crashlytics is a common practice among developers nowadays. If you are not using it we/you should because most clients want it.

And finally an interesting article on this: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidTesting/article.html

 

Erel

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• Aug 12, 2014

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How are these links related to: "The code could be converted to java and then executed on the host pc." ?

 

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PawelS

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• Aug 13, 2014

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Erel is right ... that is not what I meant.

There is a workaround that I use. I make separate class modules to do the testing and just execute them instead of the full app on the device getting test results in the log - then I comment out the test execution when I test the whole app itself. Then the test class can be removed in the app release version.

I just though there is a way to execute the code (only logic to be tested, not related to UI, activities etc.) on the PC without the need to connect to the device - but as Erel explained - it is not possible.

 

Erel

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• Aug 13, 2014

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Note that in some cases you can use B4J for that.

 

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PawelS

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• Aug 13, 2014

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Thanks Erel. I am aware of that.

 

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bluedude

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• Aug 16, 2014

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Erel said:

How are these links related to: "The code could be converted to java and then executed on the host pc." ?

Click to expand...

No related, just pointing to ways to do unit testing. A modern developer indeed needs unit testing, version control, crash analytics,scrum etc. Without that it's hard to make customers happpy