Android AsyncTask testing with Android Test Framework

Question

I have a very simple AsyncTask implementation example and am having problem in testing it using Android JUnit framework.

It works just fine when I instantiate and e

Answer 1

I wrote enough unitests for Android and just want to share how to do that.

First off, here is helper class that responsible to wait and release waiter. Nothing special:

SyncronizeTalker

public class SyncronizeTalker {
    public void doWait(long l){
        synchronized(this){
            try {
                this.wait(l);
            } catch(InterruptedException e) {
            }
        }
    }



    public void doNotify() {
        synchronized(this) {
            this.notify();
        }
    }


    public void doWait() {
        synchronized(this){
            try {
                this.wait();
            } catch(InterruptedException e) {
            }
        }
    }
}

Next, lets create interface with one method that should be called from AsyncTask when work is done. Sure we also want to test our results:

TestTaskItf

public interface TestTaskItf {
    public void onDone(ArrayList list); // dummy data
}

Next lets create some skeleton of our Task that we gonna test:

public class SomeTask extends AsyncTask {

   private ArrayList data = new ArrayList(); 
   private WmTestTaskItf mInter = null;// for tests only

   public WmBuildGroupsTask(Context context, WmTestTaskItf inter) {
        super();
        this.mContext = context;
        this.mInter = inter;        
    }

        @Override
    protected SomeItem doInBackground(Void... params) { /* .... job ... */}

        @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(SomeItem item) {
           // ....

       if(this.mInter != null){ // aka test mode
        this.mInter.onDone(data); // tell to unitest that we finished
        }
    }
}

At last - our unitest class:

TestBuildGroupTask

public class TestBuildGroupTask extends AndroidTestCase  implements WmTestTaskItf{


    private SyncronizeTalker async = null;

    public void setUP() throws Exception{
        super.setUp();
    }

    public void tearDown() throws Exception{
        super.tearDown();
    }

    public void test____Run(){

         mContext = getContext();
         assertNotNull(mContext);

        async = new SyncronizeTalker();

        WmTestTaskItf me = this;
        SomeTask task = new SomeTask(mContext, me);
        task.execute();

        async.doWait(); // <--- wait till "async.doNotify()" is called
    }

    @Override
    public void onDone(ArrayList list) {
        assertNotNull(list);        

        // run other validations here

       async.doNotify(); // release "async.doWait()" (on this step the unitest is finished)
    }
}

That's all.

Hope it will help to someone.