Tests for Android

[franzejr]

This Application will have tests? Feature tests?

Probably https://github.com/robotiumtech/robotium is a good one idea.

[franzejr]

@Viirus, @negue , something in mind ?

[dlew]

Some information about testing...

Robotium is somewhat of an older project. Nowadays the recommended framework is Espresso (from Google). You can find out a lot more about that here: https://google.github.io/android-testing-support-library/

Generally speaking, the more unit tests you can have work without Android, the better (since pure Java unit tests are far faster). I'm not actually a big fan of integration tests because they're slow and brittle (any change to the UI can cause a problem). Testing the logic of the app quickly would be a good start.

Since the app is open source, you can use Travis CI for free on it. The neat thing about that is that you can apply tests automatically to every pull request, which can act as a filter on bad PRs. For example, see RxBinding's current PRs, where one of them is currently failing to pass: JakeWharton/RxBinding#128