The open source SDK now has a tool called monkeyrunner, with an API for starting instrumentation from within a Python script. The call (in essence) returns a string containing the test results, as if you had intercepted the output from am instrument. One of the API methods prints out some help, and a little birdie has told me that more docs will be made available.
Elk On Nov 2, 11:20 pm, Greg Giacovelli <miyamo...@gmail.com> wro > So I give in. I approached this problem as an oh hey that's not too > bad, I can write a bunch of unit tests, and I have been keeping my > suite green. However as things get more involved continuous > integration and testing is a great great thing to have. And then I saw > oh Android has emma integration as well awesome ... and then that's > where it get's iffy. > > So I setup Hudson and have it call the coverage target of the ant > build.xml that the android executable in the sdk can generate. And > then it hits me. > > adb -s <emulator> shell am instrument -w ... > > will never return a result code that is not 0 ... because adb > technically exited cleanly and usually will regardless of how the > shell command that executed did. > > So again I say, Oh that's not too bad, I can just wrap adb with a > parser that parses output for errors and return a non 0 resultcode to > fail my build if a test fails. Problem is then I also want to see what > tests fail. I know eclipse is doing something smarter so I dig deeper > and find the extra switches you can pass am instrument including the - > r flag. > > adb -s <emulator> shell am instrument -r -w ... > > Now this is starting to get complicated as the output gets more > complex and this originally thought simple task is getting more > intense. As this SDK is maturing more I have to think, someone has > endured this pain and made a kickass way to automate and report on > these sdk tools and output. Like something complete with performance > test tracking, code coverage reporting etc. These outputs all exit in > the SDK but they just have to be adapted to the tools used outside. I > have to think after a year or two this adapter(s) has to have been > written. However I have only been able to find blackbox testing > frameworks and not anything along the lines of regression test suite > automation of the whitebox sort. > > Any suggestions welcome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
