How to resolve Exception during suite construction?

Question

I have followed the below steps to test my app.

1. I have created Android Project.
2. I have created the debug signature for my sample app and test app(which need to be tested)
3. Place the sampleapp_debug.apk in the bin folder (where my workspace is there)
4. Installed the testapp_debug.apk in the emulator.
5. Now i am running the project as a Android JunitTest.

I am getting the below error.. How to resolve this..

java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception during suite construction
at android.test.suitebuilder.TestSuiteBuilder$FailedToCreateTests.testSuiteConstructionFailed(TestSuiteBuilder.java:239)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at android.test.AndroidTestRunner.runTest(AndroidTestRunner.java:169)
at android.test.AndroidTestRunner.runTest(AndroidTestRunner.java:154)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner.onStart(InstrumentationTestRunner.java:520)
at android.app.Instrumentation$InstrumentationThread.run(Instrumentation.java:1447)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Method name must not be null.
at java.lang.ClassCache.findMethodByName(ClassCache.java:297)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:985)
at android.test.suitebuilder.TestMethod.getAnnotation(TestMethod.java:60)
at android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.HasMethodAnnotation.apply(HasMethodAnnotation.java:39)
at android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.HasMethodAnnotation.apply(HasMethodAnnotation.java:30)
at com.android.internal.util.Predicates$OrPredicate.apply(Predicates.java:106)
at android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.HasAnnotation.apply(HasAnnotation.java:42)
at android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.HasAnnotation.apply(HasAnnotation.java:31)
at com.android.internal.util.Predicates$NotPredicate.apply(Predicates.java:122)
at android.test.suitebuilder.TestSuiteBuilder.satisfiesAllPredicates(TestSuiteBuilder.java:254)
at android.test.suitebuilder.TestSuiteBuilder.build(TestSuiteBuilder.java:190)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner.onCreate(InstrumentationTestRunner.java:373)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4218)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$3000(ActivityThread.java:125)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2071)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

I encounter the same error and this solution worked for me:

Do not use public TestTextView(String name) but public TestTextView() as constructor.

as what W.Elsinga mention on his comment found here Link

Answer 2

I faced similar type of problem before. I resolved the same by using default constructor in Testcode rather than parametrized constructor. The following tutorial was useful for me

See this tutorial