Is there any doc on running unit tests in a Backendless App (Android-Windows)

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I can’t find any doc on Unit testing with a backendless project.

I’m trying to get very simple Unit testing working in Android Studio on Windows. I have included in my Gradle file what the Google doc tells me to include :

android
defaultConfig:
testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"plus …
Dependencies :
androidTestCompile ‘com.android.support:support-annotations:23.2.1’
androidTestCompile ‘com.android.support.test:runner:0.4’
androidTestCompile ‘com.android.support.test:rules:0.4’
androidTestCompile ‘com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.1’
androidTestCompile ‘com.android.support.test.uiautomator:uiautomator-v18:2.1.2’

but trying to run my test - or even the supplied example test, I get the error Build FailedTask ‘testClasses’ not found in project ‘:backendless’

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Hi, Richard. I believe this question is out of the scope of Backendless Support forum. Looks like it is not the problem with Backendless but your test framework setup.

3

Acutally, I would call it a ‘limitation’ of Backendless. When writing unit tests, we want to isolate the client code from the back end. Backendless is so integrated into one’s client code that it makes it difficult to do.

4

I believe it depends from your implementation, and it is realy out of scope of Backendless Support forum

5

Do you want to write unit tests for the functionality that we provide? What is the ultimate goal here?