So I am trying to write instrumentation tests using a custom build variant, mock. In this build variant I mocked up my classes and server. When I try using the mock build myself it works fine, but I can't seem to use my mock build for testing. Here's what my configuration looks like inside Android Studio.
I had some issues getting my tests to run so I tried to uninstall all versions of my app except my mock version and I keep getting this error:
Test running startedTest running failed: Unable to find instrumentation target package: com.teamtreehouse.review.debug
However when I try to run my tests against the debug build variant it works fine. It installs my debug version then proceeds to run the tests.
You can do testing on a different build variant; but only on one. The default is debug.
See this:
http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Testing
Currently only one Build Type is tested. By default it is the debug
Build Type, but this can be reconfigured with:
android {
...
testBuildType "staging"
}
AFAIK androidTest only works against the debug buildType.
You can use build flavours to do what you want, a good example can be found here: https://www.code-labs.io/codelabs/android-testing/#0
Alternatively, you can configure your testBuildType as following way so that you can decide to run any build type of the androidTest specifying the respective property from command line.
android {
...
if (project.hasProperty('androidTestRelease')) {
testBuildType 'release'
} else if (project.hasProperty('androidTestStaging')) {
testBuildType 'staging'
} else {
testBuildType 'debug'
}
...
}
From command line
./gradlew connectedCheck -PandroidTestStaging