Apps Contexts in a JUnit test?

[James McMurray]

I've got a class that interfaces with the preferences that I'd like to unit test, but I can't figure out a way to pass it a context it can use for getSharedPreferences. Is there an easy (or even not-so-easy) way to do so?

Thanks!

 

[bwin]

Just in case you haven't already found this out for yourself in the past two weeks, I suggest you have a look at My life with Android : JUnit in Android for an excellent article on JUnit and Android complete with a good example. To answer your question specifically, if your test cases inherit from android.test.AndroidTestCase instead of junit.framework.TestCase, you can call getContext() to get an Android Context.
HTH
Brian.

 

[James McMurray]

Thanks! I've been using the Activity Test Case with a dummy activity, but this way is much cleaner.