Types of tests

Testing comes in a variety of frameworks with differing levels of support from the Android SDK and your IDE of choice. For now, we are going to concentrate on how to test Android apps using the instrumented Android testing framework, which has full SDK and ASide support, and later on, we will discuss the alternatives.

Testing can be implemented at any time in the development process, depending on the test method employed. However, we will be promoting testing at an early stage of the development cycle, even before the full set of requirements has been defined and the coding process has been started.

There are several types of tests depending on the code being tested. Regardless of its type, a test should verify a condition and return ...

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