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• Issue #129

  How to build rock solid apps & keep 100m+ users happy

  In this set of slides from a Devoxx presentation, Iordanis Giannakakis presents how the Shazam team made the release schedule faster, more predictable and with more features by using BDD and automation testing.
• Issue #124

  Test Early, Test Often

  In this post you'll learn how to integrate testing as part of your app development. You'll see which parts of testing you can automate and which you have to cover manually.
• Issue #111

  Getting private app data off non-rooted devices using adb run-as and a debuggable app

  A quick script for pulling all relevant files from all attached devices when testing debuggable apps.
• Issue #109

  Protip: Easier login testing If you're working on an…

  Arne Stockmans shows how easy it is to push keyboard input to an emulator via adb commands.
• Issue #106

  Mobile App Testing on Real Devices with Testdroid

  Testdroid is a family of development and testing products for Android and iOS apps and games. With the help of 300+ real devices and test automation at Testdroid Cloud, you can easily test mobile apps, pinpoint bugs and errors, and get detailed logs and screenshots in a matter of minutes.
• Issue #106

  Wait for it...a deep dive into Espresso's Idling Resources

  One of the challenges developers have to face when writing UI tests is waiting for asynchronous computations or I/O operations to be completed. This post describes how that problem can be solved using the Espresso testing framework and a few gotchas the author learned.
• 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.