Agile Android

Chapter    3

Third-Party Tools

JUnit on its own may be all you need, but there are a number of excellent third-party tools that you can bolt onto JUnit that really make your Android testing shine.

In this chapter we’ll take a look at the following tools:

• Hamcrest for better assertions
• JaCoCo so we can measure our JUnit code coverage
• Mockito so we can keep our unit tests focused on the code
• Robolectric so we can test our Android activities
• Jenkins for automating our testing

Hamcrest Assertions

Anything more than a simple Hello, World-type application is probably going to need better assertions than those that come with JUnit 4.x. Hamcrest is one option that offers a lot more matchers. It also provides a lot more flexibility by allowing you to ...