Android Testing - Issue with ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2?

Question

I am running UIAutomation for android using Robotium and ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2. I have a test suite with 5 tests. Sometimes my test randomly crash because a test starts, once the previous test has not ended yet. Is there a way to avoid this? is it possible to manually add a 10 second delay before every test to get away from this horrible annoying bug?

EDIT:

public class MyTest<T extends RoboActivity> extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2<T>
{

    protected Solo solo;

    @Override
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();
        solo = new Solo(getInstrumentation(), getActivity());
    }

    @Override
    protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
        solo.finishOpenedActivities();

        try {
            solo.finalize();
        }
        catch (Throwable e) {
            Assert.fail(e.getMessage()+ e.toString());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        super.tearDown();
    }
}

This sounds very weird, can you post the code of your tests? — gianpi, Dec 13 '11 at 20:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '15 at 22:23

Maybe this could work :

mSolo = new Solo(getInstrumentation(), getActivity());
mSolo.waitForActivity(AccountDetail.class);

Seems that waitFor* methods are managing that better than a "sleep" http://robotium.googlecode.com/svn/doc/com/robotium/solo/Solo.html#waitForActivity(java.lang.Class, int)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '12 at 15:01

My tests's construction, teardown, etc. are slightly different and works well (see below). I had to add a sleep to work around some non-deterministic test-failures.

public class AccountDetailTest extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2<AccountDetail> {

private Solo solo;

public AccountDetailTest() {
    super("com.bigcorp.breadmaker", AccountDetail.class);
}

@Override
public void setUp() {
    solo = new Solo(getInstrumentation(), getActivity());
    solo.sleep(500); //wait for activity to initialize
}

@SmallTest
public void testDummy() {
    assertNotNull(solo);
}

@Override
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    solo.finishOpenedActivities();
}
}

Android Testing - Issue with ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2?

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