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Android Unit Testing Part IV: Mocking

This is the third of a four part series on Android Unit Testing. In the last two articles I discussed the general principles of having good tests and the way to run Android tests on JVM making them fast and how to make your code less coupled. This article will explain how to make tests isolated. We need to mock a dependency, inject it, and then modify our test to indicate that we are not...

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Android Unit Testing Part III: Disintegration

This is the third of a four part series on Android Unit Testing. In the last two articles I discussed the general principles of having good tests and the way to run Android tests on JVM making them fast. This part will show how to make your Android code less heavily coupled. This is a preparation step to ensure that your tests are isolated from each other. We want to test each unit of work...

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Android Unit Testing Part II: Escaping Dalvik's Hold

This is the second of a four part series on Android Unit Testing. In these posts, we’ll walk through the key steps engineers should take to make Android test fast by running them on JVM (versus running them on emulator). For background information on the importance of Android testing, visit Part I of the series. It appears that the need to run tests on an Android device or an emulator has concerned Android engineers for...

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