Apps Testing your applications

[smattiuz]

I was thinking about how you manage to test your applications... do you have an android device or you do simply use the emulator? I was thinking about installing android on virtualbox and try my applications there (since i don't have an android phone, just a nokia e65 which seems not to be android capable )

what about you?

 

[regulatre]

I know what you mean. There SDK comes with an "exerciser monkey" that does random user inputs against a program. It could probably expose a glitch or two.

I also noticed that when I create an app in Eclipse, it asks if I want to create a "test app" to go along with my app. I haven't experimented with this much other than letting it create the test app.

For my app I was thinking of just making a check list that I'll run through against each release: "checked this" "checked that"...

I was thinking about how you manage to test your applications... do you have an android device or you do simply use the emulator? I was thinking about installing android on virtualbox and try my applications there (since i don't have an android phone, just a nokia e65 which seems not to be android capable )

what about you?

 

[driodguy]

I feel like I have to see it in an actual device for some reason, but the emulator is a really close representation so it might not be necessary. I wonder how much the exerciser monkey will really be able to find certain kinds of bugs, but it's a good piece to the puzzle.

I also run my apps through the analyzer at ShipCode.com, kind of a free little check that looks for some poor programming practices and throws up a cool little report.

Of course if you've got the $$ you can get a freelancer or QA house to go over your application, but for most folks this is overkill I guess. Sometimes when you QA your own stuff you can miss the easiest of problems, it's like I've got blinders on sometimes!