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Learning Android Application Testing
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Learning Android Application Testing

by Paul Blundell
March 2015
Beginner to intermediate
274 pages
6h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introducing Fork

Another humorous name for a library, but stick with it reader, this similarity is not just a co-incidence. After telling you how amazing Spoon is at speeding up your tests by running all your instrumentation tests in parallel on all connected devices, well here comes Fork, to tell you that this naïve scheduling (their words not mine), is a burden on yourself and your CI. Fork can run your tests even faster!

Fork increases your tests' speed by introducing a concept called Device Pools. In simple terms, imagine you had two identical devices, which are two Sony Xperia Z1s running Android 5.0. Fork will take your test suite and split it in half, running half the tests on each device. Thus, it saves you 50 percent of the test run speed ...

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