2013/12/21 Jürgen Cruz <[email protected]> > Even if the tooling API is opened, you are leaving the responsibility to > create plugins for unit testing to third party developers. Plus it well > make the plugin more complicated than it needs to be. > > Tooling API is accessible. I'm not sure what you mean by 'if it is opened'.
The complexity has to be put somewhere. My idea is to put most cohering things together. > There shouldn't be need for unit testing plugins in the first place. Unit > testing should be a standard and should be shipped with the android plugin > and AS. Intellij already supports unit testing, every major IDE supports > unit testing out of the box. Why should AS depend on plugins to enable a > basic need of developers. > Very well put. I completely agree that unit testing should be part of the platform. Yet after five years we are in a state where unit testing is an afterthought. Long term solution is to convince Google folks to accept the need for unittesting and wait for first class support from Android SDK and related IDE support in AS that can be later complemented by other tooling support from other parties. The current reality is a hybrid solution. I tried to describe why this won't be optimal. Of course I know that relying on 3rd party developers is a risk and usual Google's secretiveness will not help us (at least we can see that http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/roadmap talks about testing but not unittesting). I just offered my feedback on what we can do about testing. > > Even Jake Warthon stated he rather work in other projects than maintaining > he's plugin since android plugin should be responsible of unit testing. > Unifying developers to develop the sole android plugin instead of dividing > efforts in scattered plugins. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
