My android app has a service which sends notifications to user based on parameters like number of runs of the app. The notifications are sent at different times in different situations. I want to test whether notifications are sent at the right times in all the different cases. Does android provide a way of such a testing ?
Sending a test Android push notificationClick on Settings and open Mobile Apps. Click on the Android App and make sure the Firebase API key has been configured. Click on Test Push and enter the device token for your test device. Add a test payload and send the test.
It allows you to have a small group of test users on both Android and iOS to send your test notification out to without bugging the other users of your app. Using Notification Groups allows you to test more targeted notifications.
To use push notifications, you must install a compatible version of the Google APIs platform. To test your app on the emulator, expand the directory for Android 4.2. 2 (API 17) or a higher version, select Google APIs, and install it. Then create a new AVD with Google APIs as the platform target.
Testing is an integral part of the app development process. By running tests against your app consistently, you can verify your app's correctness, functional behavior, and usability before you release it publicly. You can manually test your app by navigating through it.
Testing Notification using UIAutomator:
Just go through the below code. It will help you in testing the notification.
UiDevice device = UiDevice.getInstance(InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation());
device.openNotification();
device.wait(Until.hasObject(By.text(NOTIFICATION_TITLE)), TIMEOUT);
UiObject2 title = device.findObject(By.text(NOTIFICATION_TITLE));
UiObject2 text = device.findObject(By.text(NOTIFICATION_TEXT));
assertEquals(NOTIFICATION_TITLE, title.getText());
assertEquals(NOTIFICATION_TEXT, text.getText());
title.click();
device.wait(Until.hasObject(By.text(ESPRESSO.getName())), TIMEOUT);
Don't forget to add the UIAutomator dependencies in build.gradle
.
// UIAutomator dependency
androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.uiautomator:uiautomator-v18:2.1.1'
Please read this article
http://qathread.blogspot.com/2015/05/espresso-uiautomator-perfect-tandem.html
Here is a nice explanation of this topic:
Espresso
for Android is perfect and fast test automation framework, but it has one important limitation - you are allowed to operate only inside your app under test context.This means, it is not possible to automate tests for app features such as:
- application push notifications
- contact synchronization
- navigating from another app to your app under test,
Since you have to deal with other apps from the mobile device -
NotificationBar
,Contacts
orPeople
app, etc.In fact it wasn't possible until the release of
UIAutomator 2.0
. As stated in Android Developers blog post - "...Most importantly,UI Automator
is now based on Android Instrumentation...". And because of that we can runUIAutomator
tests as well asEspresso
tests usingInstrumentation test runner
.In addition to that we can combine UIAutomator tests together with
Espresso
tests and this gives us the real power and control over the phone and application under test.
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