Android聊天应用测试

Question

Consider a simple chat app, you can send and receive text messages. I need to perform some black box testing, but have no idea how to co-ordinate two clients.

For example:

Let's assume that the test is to check if user1 can sent a message to user2 . Here, I can make user1 send message using Robotium but how to assert if user2 (ie on other device/emulator) has received the text.

Answer 1

The normal way for something like this is to do two tests, one for each case. So with only one device/emulator, you write a test that verifies the correct behaviour when a message gets sent and another test for when a message gets received. You only need one device/emulator.

The kind of test you are describing is technically possible, but you need to build out quite a bit to make it happen, as robotium by itself will not be enough for this. Not sure it's worth it.