In android, Can we use conditions to make sure that developer always writes unit test?

Asked Aug 30 '21 at 06:40

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In android, how can I make sure that developers always write unit test of each method they wrote? Is there a lint or klint library or custom code to check that, for example If i have written a function, lint should ask in warning that if you have written its unit test or not? Then I create unit test of it and then it removes the warning.

For some methods like onCreate() etc we can't write unit tests so we can set it to some other property to ignore the warning when lint asks for it.

asked Aug 30 '21 at 06:40

Ahmad Shahwaiz

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Even if this exists, it's not going to work. Developers will just write useless unit tests if they're forced to write tests. – Stephan Branczyk Aug 30 '21 at 06:43
otherwise may be they will just skip or forget. what we can do is to encourage them. – Ahmad Shahwaiz Aug 30 '21 at 06:48
One approach to solve this problem is to run unit tests in your CI pipeline with code coverage. The pipeline must fail if the code coverage is below a threshold value which you define. – Alexander Hoffmann Aug 30 '21 at 07:22
yes that can be a solution but i wanted this to check on compile time. so that developer should know immediately after writing the function. – Ahmad Shahwaiz Aug 30 '21 at 07:25
Related: https://developer.android.com/studio/test#view_test_coverage – Morrison Chang Aug 30 '21 at 08:24

In android, Can we use conditions to make sure that developer always writes unit test?

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