Migrating Junit4 tests to androidx: What causes 'delegate runner could not be loaded'?

Question

I am migrating my app to androidx, I can\'t seem to get my unit tests working. I took example from Google\'s AndroidJunitRunnerSample, which has been updated to use the new

Answer 1

Changing

@Test
void someTest() {
    // Testing here
}

to

@Test
public void someTest() {
    // Testing here
}

works for me.

Answer 2

I gut this error for simply set fun as private, removing this solved this for me.

Answer 3

AndroidJUnit4 DOESN'T SUPPORT in the functions with @Test annotations neither in the class nor in the superclass:

• the parameters: @Test fun dontWork(param: String) {}
• private access modifiers: @Test private fun dontWork2() {}

Note: Without @Test annotations the above is allowed

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An expected way could be:

ClassTest.kt

import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4
import org.junit.Test
import org.junit.runner.RunWith

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
class ClassTest : SuperTest() {

    @Test
    fun test() {}

    private fun allowedWithoutAnnotation(paramAllowed: String) {}

}

build.gradle (:mobile)

defaultConfig {
    ...
    testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}


dependencies {
    ...
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.arch.core:core-testing:2.1.0'
} 

GL

Answer 4

You can use @JvmField. From documentation

Instructs the Kotlin compiler not to generate getters/setters for this property and expose it as a field

@Rule
@JvmField
val activityActivityTestRule = ActivityScenarioRule<MainActivity>(MainActivity::class.java)

Answer 5

Maybe you haven't updated the runner on the gradle config file?

defaultConfig {
    ...
    testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}

Also, AndroidStudio 3.2 has an option to automate the migration of your dependencies to AndroidX (Refactor -> Migrate to AndroidX...) that did that for me.

Answer 6

You need to make sure that any class marked with the @BeforeClass annotation is public static . For example:

import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4;

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class EntityParcelTest {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void createEntities() {
        // Setup...
    }

    @Test
    public void someTest() {
        // Testing here
    }