Unit Testing an Android application in Bamboo, Hudson, or any CI servers

Question

it seems that running an Android Test requires that a device or emulator is present. even this article: http://code.google.com/p/the-missing-android-xml-junit-test-runner/ requires it.

does anyone able to setup Android Tests in a CI server? kindly enlighten me on how to do the setup.

thanks!

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '11 at 07:16

Unfortunately I have not finished this task yet. But think I'm close to it. We use Jenkins as an integration server.

Android emulator has a nice option

-no-window

I managed to run emulator with this option on our Ubuntu server without any X-server.

So I'm going to implement the following steps:

Create a dedicated AVD for running tests (not sure about their count, but we start with one AVD and one Android project and one job :) )
The first build step will be to run an emulator with -no-window
The second step - install application packages using adb. Here is one pretty feature of adb install command: it will finish after installation is completed only. So we don't worry about long emulator startup.
And the last step - run tests using

adb shell am instrument

There is also a task of gathering JUnit reports. I have not touched it yet... But I'm sure it's possible :)

Regarding JUnit reports, take a look at https://github.com/jsankey/android-junit-report — Paul Butcher, Jul 07 '11 at 10:14

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '11 at 10:16

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You might want to take a look at this Jenkins plugin:

We've been using it with reasonable success.

answered Jul 07 '11 at 10:16

Paul Butcher

thanks for that info. is there an equivalent Bamboo plugin? we're currently using Bamboo. – firnnauriel Jul 07 '11 at 11:23
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Really nice plugin. It resolves the problem of running different emulators simultaneously. – Roman Mazur Jul 07 '11 at 15:42
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@firnnauriel I wrote this Jenkins plugin, but I haven't heard of equivalents for other CI systems. Just one more reason to use Jenkins! ;) – Christopher Orr Jul 13 '11 at 20:43

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