Question

Has anyone used Robotium or Calculon for testing Android apps? Are they useful? Any recommendations on which is better?

Answer 1

I’d go with Robotium since Calculon is still in very early stages. Here’s a comment from Calculon’s author:

Well, currently it’s just a bunch of source files which I pulled out of another project…Note that this library is still a very
early prototype. Its API will probably
change. Source

I’ve played with Robotium today, it definitely makes writing functional tests fun. To give you an idea, here are a few method highlights from the API:

• clickOnButton, clickOnText
• enterText
• getCurrentButtons, getCurrentEditTexts, getCurrentImageViews, getCurrentSpinners, getCurrentTextViews
• pressMenuItem, pressSpinnerItem
• searchText, searchEditText, searchButton

Here is a code sample from the Getting Started Guide:

  public void testTextIsSaved() throws Exception {
    solo.clickOnText("Other");
    solo.clickOnButton("Edit");
    assertTrue(solo.searchText("Edit Window"));
    solo.enterText(1, "Some text for testing purposes")
    solo.clickOnButton("Save");
    assertTrue(solo.searchText("Changes have been made successfully"));
    solo.clickOnButton("Ok");
    assertTrue(solo.searchText("Some text for testing purposes"));}

Definitely give it a try if you’re going to write ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 classes. Check out the Getting Started guide for instructions.