Robotium is a test framework for automated testing of Android applications by black box method. Robotium allows you to create scripts for functional, system and acceptance testing.
Simple test on Robotium:
Before creating a test, create a new project in Eclipse IDE:
- Create a new project (File->New->Java Project)
- Create a package under this project (com.tests)
- Add robotium-solo-xxx.jar to Java Build Path
- Right click on the project
- Click “Properties”
- Click Java Build Path
- Click Libraries
- Click Add External Libraries
- Select robotium-solo-xxx.jar
- Create test class under the package from step 2 (Example.java)
So, let’s start writing our first test:
public class Example extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2declare our class private Solo solo; declare a class object Solo{
public EditorTest() {
super(“com.test.editor”, EditorActivity.class);
}
declare the constructor of our class
@Override
public void setUp() throws Exception {
solo = new Solo(getInstrumentation(), getActivity());
}
@Override
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
try {
solo.finalize();
} catch (Throwable e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
getActivity().finish();
super.tearDown();
}
override setUp() and tearDown(), which will be run before performing the test and after the test, respectively.
public void testSomething() throws Exception {
solo.sendKey(Solo.MENU);
solo.clickOnText(“More”);
solo.clickOnText(“Preferences”);
solo.clickOnText(“Edit”);
Assert.assertTrue(solo.searchText(“hello”));
}
directly the actual test.
As we can see, everything is simple!
Useful links: http://code.google.com/p/robotium/
