Confused about testCompile and androidTestCompile in Android Gradle

Question

I\'m new to testing world and even more to Android testing world. While doing research on Robolectric that aids with tests on android one thing confuses me the most. Sometim

Answer 1

To add Dependency for JVM testing or Unit testing (testing those rely only on java environment, we don’t need any android environment).

We Use testCompile directive. Example:

dependencies {
    testCompile gradleTestKit()
}

To add Dependency for Instrumentation test (Those testing mainly rely on Android environment), we use the androidTestCompile directive.