The tests run fast. The building of the changed code is what takes way too long.
On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 7:07:20 AM UTC-5, Paulo Morandi wrote: > > Hello, > > Here at our company we use Robolectric + PowerMock + Mockito for Unit > Tests and works really fine. It's fast and don't need the emulator or > device to run the tests. I think you should check this out. Of course, > still somehow slow to build (due the gradle build), but the run of tests > should be very fast. > > -- > Paulo Morandi > > On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 12:53:07 PM UTC-2, Streets Of Boston > wrote: >> >> I never found TDD easy, or even feasible, using Android Studio or even >> Eclipse. >> >> Most projects' builds take too long to to TDD effectively. If you can't >> check your code and run your TDD tests within a few seconds of hitting the >> 'run-tests' button, it is useless... alas.... >> >> >> On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 10:11:47 AM UTC-5, Brill Pappin wrote: >>> >>> I've just filed a bug for Android Studio about how useless the unit >>> testing is. >>> It can take over a minute to execute a single test, which means you >>> can't easily use it for verifying your code, and it makes it impossible for >>> those of us who use TDD regularly. >>> >>> Anyone else who finds this annoying, I would appreciate you giving the >>> issue some love, in the hopes that it gets some attention: >>> >>> https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=192585 >>> >>> - Brill >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

