The Ravenwood testing environment runs inside a single Java process on the host side, and provides a limited yet growing set of Android API functionality.
Ravenwood explicitly does not support “large” integration tests that expect a fully booted Android OS. Instead, it’s more suited for “small” and “medium” tests where your code-under-test has been factored to remove dependencies on a fully booted device.
When writing tests under Ravenwood, all Android API symbols associated with your declared sdk_version are available to link against using, but unsupported APIs will throw an exception. This design choice enables mocking of unsupported APIs, and supports sharing of test code to build “bivalent” test suites that run against either Ravenwood or a traditional device.
Below are the typical steps needed to add a straightforward “small” unit test:
android_ravenwood_test rule in your Android.bp file:android_ravenwood_test {
name: "MyTestsRavenwood",
static_libs: [
"androidx.annotation_annotation",
"androidx.test.rules",
],
srcs: [
"src/com/example/MyCode.java",
"tests/src/com/example/MyCodeTest.java",
],
sdk_version: "test_current",
auto_gen_config: true,
}
import android.platform.test.annotations.IgnoreUnderRavenwood;
import android.platform.test.ravenwood.RavenwoodRule;
import androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class MyCodeTest {
@Test
public void testSimple() {
// ...
}
}
Looper thread), add a RavenwoodRule to declare that:import android.platform.test.annotations.IgnoreUnderRavenwood;
import android.platform.test.ravenwood.RavenwoodRule;
import androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class MyCodeTest {
@Rule
public final RavenwoodRule mRavenwood = new RavenwoodRule.Builder()
.setProcessApp()
.setProvideMainThread(true)
.build();
Once you’ve defined your test, you can use typical commands to execute it locally:
$ atest --host MyTestsRavenwood
Note: There‘s a known bug #312525698 where
atestcurrently requires a connected device to run Ravenwood tests, but that device isn’t used for testing. Using the--hostargument above is a way to bypass this requirement until the bug is fixed.
You can also run your new tests automatically via TEST_MAPPING rules like this:
{
"ravenwood-presubmit": [
{
"name": "MyTestsRavenwood",
"host": true
}
]
}
Note: There‘s a known bug #308854804 where
TEST_MAPPINGis not being applied, so we’re currently planning to run all Ravenwood tests unconditionally in presubmit for changes toframeworks/base/andcts/until there is a better path forward.
Ravenwood supports writing tests against logic that uses feature flags through the existing SetFlagsRule infrastructure maintained by the feature flagging team:
import android.platform.test.flag.junit.SetFlagsRule;
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class MyCodeTest {
@Rule
public final SetFlagsRule mSetFlagsRule = new SetFlagsRule();
@Test
public void testEnabled() {
mSetFlagsRule.enableFlags(Flags.FLAG_MY_FLAG);
// verify test logic that depends on flag being enabled
}
This naturally composes together well with any RavenwoodRule that your test may need.
Ravenwood aims to support tests that are written in a “bivalent” way, where the same test code can be dual-compiled to run on both a real Android device and under a Ravenwood environment.
In situations where a test method depends on API functionality not yet available under Ravenwood, we provide an annotation to quietly “ignore” that test under Ravenwood, while continuing to validate that test on real devices. The annotation can be applied to either individual methods or to an entire test class. Please note that your test class must declare a RavenwoodRule for the annotation to take effect.
Test authors are encouraged to provide a blockedBy or reason argument to help future maintainers understand why a test is being ignored, and under what conditions it might be supported in the future.
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class MyCodeTest {
@Rule
public final RavenwoodRule mRavenwood = new RavenwoodRule();
@Test
public void testSimple() {
// Simple test that runs on both devices and Ravenwood
}
@Test
@IgnoreUnderRavenwood(blockedBy = PackageManager.class)
public void testComplex() {
// Complex test that runs on devices, but is ignored under Ravenwood
}
}
At the moment, the android.content.res.Resources subsystem isn't yet supported under Ravenwood, but you may still want to dual-compile test suites that depend on references to resources. Below is a strategy for supporting dual-compiliation, where you can “borrow” the generated resource symbols from your traditional android_test target:
android_test {
name: "MyTestsDevice",
resource_dirs: ["res"],
...
android_ravenwood_test {
name: "MyTestsRavenwood",
srcs: [
":MyTestsDevice{.aapt.srcjar}",
...
As you write tests against Ravenwood, you’ll likely discover API dependencies that aren’t supported yet. Here’s a few strategies that can help you make progress:
File argument instead of deriving paths internally from a Context or Environment.)Files.createTempDirectory() API which works on both physical devices and under Ravenwood:import java.nio.file.Files;
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
public class MyTest {
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
File tempDir = Files.createTempDirectory("MyTest").toFile();
...
When writing tests you may encounter odd or hard to debug behaviors. One good place to start is at the beginning of the logs stored by atest:
$ atest MyTestsRavenwood ... Test Logs have saved in /tmp/atest_result/20231128_094010_0e90t8v8/log Run 'atest --history' to review test result history.
The most useful logs are in the isolated-java-logs text file, which can typically be tab-completed by copy-pasting the logs path mentioned in the atest output:
$ less /tmp/atest_result/20231128_133105_h9al__79/log/i*/i*/isolated-java-logs*
Here are some common known issues and recommended workarounds:
@Before methods and make it conditional by testing RavenwoodRule.isUnderRavenwood().