001: Welcome & Testing in Android

Welcome to the very first episode of Fragmented. Donn and Kaushik talk about why they started the podcast, the structure of the podcast and a little about who they are. The main topic for this episode is Testing! What are the benefits of testing, in general? Why does testing specifically help Android developers? What is the state of testing in Android and how does one test in Android?

Shownotes

• Free Getting Started with Espresso 2.0 Screencast
• Unit testing support –  Android Tools site
• Donn – Android from the trenches
• Michael Bailey – (yogurtearl) – espresso, spoon and wiremock
• Matt Logan – decoupling the presenter
• KG – interested in an android developer podcast?
• UiAutomator – Junit and Monkeyrunner got drunk and hooked up
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code
• Kent Beck talking about TDD – [Youtube Is TDD Dead]
• Espresso 2.0 Cheat Sheet
• Jake Wharton – ActivityRule
• AssertJ  /  AssertJ-Android
• XKCD – Compiling Comic
• Mocks Aren’t Stubs – Martin Fowler
• ClassNotFoundExceptoin – Espresso 2.0 Dagger Issue

Testing Links

• Testing fundamentals
• Espresso
• Robolectric
• Mockito
• Spoon
• Robotium
• Android Dev Digest
• AndroidJobs.IO  

Sample Android Testing Projects

• Google Samples

Awesome picks:

• Device Lab
• Inconsolata-dz  font for development
• Consolas font for development   For questions, you can reach us at

@donnfelker and  @kaushikgopal