Robotium BDD with Cucumber - robotium

Question

I want to know if you guys know how to make BDD tests with Robotium.
As I research Robotium works with a different Virtual Machine (Dalvik) so I cannot run as Junit Test (Only with Android Junit Test). So I found a possible solution to run Robotium with Junit with RoboRemote https://github.com/groupon/robo-remote. But when i tried to integrate with cucumber the tests became unstable.
So you guys know some way to make BDD tests using Robotium?

Answer 1

I have successfully integrated Robotium using Cucumber-JVM for Android.
For information about the now official cucumber-android module for Cucumber-JVM and the installation, have a look here. You can also find API-documentation and examples about Cucumber-JVM here: http://cukes.info/platforms.html.
In your test-module for your app, simply add the Robotium Solo jar-file as a dependency (Scope: Compile).
One of my test-classes looks like this:
public class CucumberSteps extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2<YourActivity> {
private Solo solo;
public CucumberSteps() {
super(YourActivity.class);
}
#Override
protected void setUp() throws Exception {
super.setUp();
}
#Before
public void before() {
solo = new Solo(getInstrumentation(), getActivity());
}
#After
public void after() throws Throwable {
//clean up
solo.finalize();
}
#Override
protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
solo.finishOpenedActivities();
super.tearDown();
}
#Given("^step_given_description$")
public void step_given_description() throws Throwable {
final View testView = solo.getView(R.id.testView);
solo.waitForView(testView);
solo.clickOnView(testView);
// and so on
}
}
I hope this is enough information for anyone to get started. When this question was asked, cucumber-android didn't exist yet. Keep in mind though, GUI tests are very often somewhat unstable! I managed to get a stable set of tests locally, but e.g. in Jenkins, usually some tests fail for unknown reasons.

Answer 2

I know it's a very old questions but the documentation on this subject is very limited so I'll post another piece of information.
This article helped me a lot: http://www.opencredo.com/2014/01/28/cucumber-android-vs-cucumber-appium/
And I used the documentation here as well (I know it's deprecated but the main project has no docs about android at all): https://github.com/mfellner/cucumber-android.
I got it to work with IntelliJ 13 Community Edition and Maven using bits from Android
Bootstrap - http://www.androidbootstrap.com/ (Mostly the Maven integration test project configuration)
Hope it helps.

Answer 3

I got working robotium with cucumber-jvm and androidstudio using this runner:
import android.os.Bundle;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions; import
cucumber.api.android.CucumberInstrumentation;
#CucumberOptions(features = {"features"}, tags = {"#smoke",
"~#pending", "~#manual", "~#reboot"})
public class Instrumentation extends CucumberInstrumentation {
private final CucumberInstrumentation instrumentationCore = new CucumberInstrumentation();
#Override
public void onCreate(final Bundle bundle) {
super.onCreate(bundle);
instrumentationCore.onCreate(bundle);
start();
}
#Override
public void onStart() {
waitForIdleSync();
instrumentationCore.start();
}
}