The Art of Agile Development, by James Shore and Shane Warden is an excellent book. I recently read it and found it inspiring. Whilst many of the practices don’t work for a lone developer, test driven development seems like it will.

So now I’m trying to set up unit testing for when I’m developing Android appications. However, I found the guidance on the Android developer website unclear. Having spent some time getting frustrated at my apparent inability to follow simple instructions I made it past the first step. I share that first step in the hope that I can help others.

The developer notes give examples using relative paths. I found that this didn’t work. Here is the relevant folder structure for my application, which is called Aoide.

~\
  Android\
          aoide\
                AndroidManifest.xml
                build.properties
                build.xml
                default.properties
                local.properties
                proguard.cfg
                bin\
                gen\
                libs\
                res\
                src\

The Testing Fundamentals page shows that I want to create a tests folder in the aoide folder. I found this command, run from the Android directory, worked for me:

tools/android create test-project -m ~/Android/aoide \
    -n AoideTest -p ~/Android/aoide/tests

Now to figure unit tests…