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  • Issue #104

    Sr. Mobile Quality Engineer

    Do you consider yourself an expert in testing native & browser-based applications on iOS and/or Android? Do you have a passion for developing automated tests to validate quality world-class SaaS applications on mobile devices? Do you fit well embedded in a product delivery agile team and being part of a strong quality engineering community? Then Constant Contact Quality Engineering may be a great place for you!
  • Issue #103

    Simulate a slow network connection when testing on mobile devices

    If you want to simulate slow and spotty network connections on a device, one way to do it is by configuring OpenWRT on a router.
  • Issue #98

    Handy adb commands for Android

    Here are some useful commands for Android's adb. They can be used manually or to automate your build or testing process.
  • Issue #96

    Bay Area Android Fest

    Bay Area Android Meetup Groups unite in collaboration with Intel Corporation for a full day of lessons for software developers building Android apps. Attend to get deep insights from Android experts and influencers from the Android Community. The topics will range from Design & Development, to Testing, Monetization, and App Discovery! There will be giveaways upon registration, plus tablets and remote cars to win!
  • Issue #95

    Slides: How to setup unit testing in Android Studio

    Presentation on how to setup unit testing in Android Studio by Tobias Preuss from GDG Android in Berlin.
  • Issue #92

    Testing Asynchronous Tasks on Android

    Testing Asynchronous Tasks on Android is not easy. In this post by Enrique López Mañas you will learn how he does it by using the CountDownLatch class.
  • Issue #91

    Integration Testing against REST APIs

    Here's a great look at options for doing integration testing against backend services in Android apps.
  • Issue #91

    Double Espresso

    A pure Gradle port of the Espresso testing utility for Android by Jake Wharton
  • Issue #84

    Testing on Android (Part 2): Functional Tests

    Here's part two of Daniel Lew's series on Android testing. This time, he's going to wade into the huge number of functional testing frameworks that exist and discuss the best ones.
  • Issue #84

    Espresso 1.1

    Almost 3 months have passed since the launch of Espresso testing framework for Android; time flies when you’re doing UI testing. We are excited to share a new version 1.1 with you.
  • Issue #82

    Reliable API testing for Android with Retrofit and Mockito

    Matt Swanson has published a nice little blog post on how to test tricky things like http requests to an API. He uses Retrofit for the REST calls and Mockito to mock the results.
  • Issue #80

    Android Gradle Starter Project

    Ravindra Kumar has created a sample android starter project to demonstrate the integration of the following tools: Automation: Gradle Testing: Android Testing Framework, Robotium, Roboelectric (JUnit, Instrumentation) Continuous Integration: TravisCI
  • Issue #80

    Testing for Android

    Join AppThwack's Trent Peterson as he demystifies Android testing with a review of automation strategy and testing tools.
  • Issue #81

    Getting Started With Android Testing

    An in depth article describing an automated User Acceptance Testing scenario using Gradle.
  • Issue #78

    Easy Testing with Android Studio

    If you’re developing in Android Studio and using the Gradle build system, this guide will help you get your Test environment using JUnit and Robolectric up and running in a few easy steps.
  • Issue #76

    Use Genymotion with Jenkins for Android testing

    Pascal Cans from Genymotion shows how you can already integrate their emulator with Jenkins in order to automate your Android unit tests.
  • Issue #76

    Analytics and A/B Testing

    Amazon added to the list of free mobile services we offer across platforms: Analytics is a fast new service, simple to understand and integrate, that shows customer engagement at a glance; while A/B Testing has been expanded to support iOS and Android in addition to Fire OS.
  • Issue #75

    Testing Your Android GCM Broadcast Receiver without GCM Messages

    So depending on your environment it's kind of a PITA to test Google Cloud Messaging on an actual device. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just test the code locally that would receive those magical GCM messages? You can and this post by Nicholas Pike explains how.
  • Issue #72

    Robolectric 2.2

    The Robolectric testing framework has been updated to v2.2 and brings several useful changes.
  • Issue #71

    Mini Mobile Device Lab

    There is a real problem testing web pages across multiple devices and the browsers that run on them. The best solutions today are to either enter a url to a tool to manage the devices or use applications across the devices, keeping them open and testing in a WebView. This project is a Virtual Device Lab. It allows you to quickly launch url's across all of a configured devices in an instant, selecting which browser to launch. This is still in early stages of development, which means you can probably expect things to break, but we'd love help, bugs and feature requests.
  • Issue #67

    AppThwack rolls out integrated testing

    AppThwack rolls out Android app testing with Android Studio and Gradle. It lets you easily run your unit tests on their set of mobile devices direct from Studio or your Gradle build.
  • Issue #90

    Unit Testing Remote Images With Robolectric

    Chuck Greb at aweber describes how they implement unit testing around the open source Picasso image downloading library.
  • Issue #64

    Selendroid

    Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives of the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps). Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API. Selendroid can be used on emulators and real devices and can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing.
  • Issue #62

    Mockwebserver

    Testing your APIs automatically can be painfull. This library makes it possible to write fast, reliable unit tests for HTTP clients. Like object mocking frameworks, it allows you to script mock responses, exercise them, and then review the recorded requests.