Is this code lab on testing still valid? (state of...
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codeslubber
04/20/2020, 4:32 PMIs this code lab on testing still valid? (state of the art?) I cloned it and it seemed like it has not been touched in a long time.. been reading about AndroidX testing, but as I look at code I still see deprecated stuff.. ?
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/advanced-android-kotlin-training-testing-basics/index.html#0
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Adam Powell
04/21/2020, 1:09 AM@Manuel Vivo do you know what version this is currently targeting?
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 1:35 AMForgot to mention I did update the gradle plugin and made a couple minor changes and the app did build and I was able to run it. But the InstrumentationTests fail. Says something like ‘Test runner failed unexpectedly.’
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Manuel Vivo
04/21/2020, 7:16 AMInvolving @ppvi that might have more info about this
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ppvi
04/21/2020, 7:58 AMLast commit was made 2 months ago, what deprecated code are you looking at?
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 4:29 PMI was just saying that most the classes are chains of deprecated things, on the instrumented test side. But the tests in the project do not run for me. Anyway I will tinker some more and see if I can get some similar tests working.
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ppvi
04/21/2020, 4:45 PMOk but what deprecated things? Do you have an example?
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:10 PMIf you look at the code for doing Tests on android it’s a LONG string of deprecated stuff!! and one thing points you to another and that one is deprecated, e.g.
ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:11 PMimage.png
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:11 PMthat’s the doc page and you see the deprecation notice? what do you suppose happens when you click there? Right:
ActivityTestRulecodeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:12 PMI watched a video where the presenter (I/O) spent half his time talking about how crucial testing was at GOogle and you can’t even get a PR approved without tests and yada yada yada, then I go to run the test in the sample app and it doesn’t work. Gee I wonder why patronizing presenters are so disappointed in the amount of testing the community is doing?? can’t figure it out?
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ppvi
04/21/2020, 6:43 PMLol I don't know what you're looking at but we haven't used that in years
ppvi
04/21/2020, 6:43 PMCan you share urls where you see that?
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:44 PMthe links?? to the documentation on developer.android.com?: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/test/ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:44 PMI was excited to find the codelab
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ppvi
04/21/2020, 6:45 PMThe codelab where you see that API being used
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:45 PMI like the strategy of using the Espresso stuff for instrumented tests too
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:45 PMthe codelab is not using that the codelab does not run
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 6:45 PMso I went back to reading documentation
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ppvi
04/21/2020, 6:47 PMThe codelab even has CI so it does run, you must be doing something wrong that we might have missed
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 7:15 PMwhat could I be doing wrong?
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 7:15 PMI cloned it and clicked Run on the test?
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 7:15 PMrunning it in the 4.1 Preview maybe? maybe it works in the 3.x
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ppvi
04/21/2020, 7:32 PMIt's a codelab, not a sample. If you run the starter_code branch it will fail. Did you follow the actual codelab?
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codeslubber
04/21/2020, 9:13 PMomg dude you are incredible, thanks for your help
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 9:13 PMyeah I read the lab I also fixed it
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 9:13 PMby running in 3.6.2, you must disappointed it wasn’t just my stupidity
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 9:14 PMbtw, you better go reread the codelab
codeslubber
04/21/2020, 9:15 PMit tells you to pull it, run the app, run the unit test, then run the example instrumentation test, which is what I did