Android Continuous Integration Guide

Android Application Testing Guide features a whole chapter about Continuous Integration (Chapter 8), however some latest changes and additions to the tools available may require a more in-depth coverage of the subject.
Consequently, I'm preparing an Android Continuous Integration Guide to compile all the information laying around on the subject and to provide concise, working examples that you could use to base your own projects on.
In the creation of these examples using Jenkins and EMMA for code coverage one of the most annoying things is the R class affecting the results of the coverage report, as most probably you are not creating tests for such auto-generated class.

This screenshot show how the coverage report for classes reaches 100% once we filter out the R class.

The problem is that in current Android SDK Tools (Rev 16), there's no way to filter classes from EMMA coverage unless you modify the file /tools/ant/build.xml, changing the emma target to include the filters as showed in this code snippet:

            <!-- It only instruments class files, not any external libs -->
            <emma enabled="true">
               <instr verbosity="${verbosity}"
                               mode="overwrite"
                               instrpath="${out.absolute.dir}/classes"
                               outdir="${out.absolute.dir}/classes">
                    <!-- DTM: 2011-12-23: added filter for R -->
                     <filter excludes="*.R" />
                     <filter excludes="*.R$*" />
                </instr>
                <!-- TODO: exclusion filters on R*.class and allowing custom exclusion from
                             user defined file -->
            </emma>

I hope this help you getting started and stay tuned, Android Continuous Integration Guide is scheduled to be released by the end of January 2012.

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