Has anyone used Robotium or Calculon for testing Android apps?

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.