Here's an alternative way to meet the desire expressed by the OP to find a way to run unit tests in an IDE like Eclipse using judicious design instead of dependency injection...
In most cases it will possible to break down the application into some sort of MVC structure. Usually the model and controller won't require tight platform integration. Actions will include sending and receiving messages, caching some data, managing some state, posting events to view components, reading contacts data, reading a file etc. It will usually be possible to write an application core with platform- agnostic J2SE using some sensible platform abstraction interfaces of the functionality required by the application. This has a number advantages: * It avoids the need to abstract every aspect of a platform or use a full-blown dependency framework * The core application can tested in detail using standard Junit etc with the help of a mock/spy framework, such as Jmock or EasyMock, to deal with the small set of platform abstraction interfaces. This means standard IDE test runners can be used. * A standard J2SE core can be reused in other scenarios e.g. a J2ME client or a J2SE client for server load-testing * Platform abstraction interfaces and implementations can be reused in multiple applications The view part is clearly tightly coupled to activities, intents, and the Android UI framework. My preference is to write integration tests using the Activity instrumentation framework. These tests are by no means exhaustive. They are integration tests that ensure the Activity starts ok and key user-driven behaviours work at a high level. For example, check clicking a button drives a transition to a new Activity. The J2SE tests are there to check the detailed behaviour. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
