Testing your workers
Testing the code is very important. It ensures that our code works as expected and it also helps us to catch bugs early. We will be writing tests for our workers in this section. To test our workers, we first need to set up WorkManager testing dependencies with the following steps:
- Let us head over to the
libs.versions.tomlfile and add the following dependency to thelibrariessection:work-testing = { module = "androidx.work:work-testing", version.ref = "work" }Sync your project. This will add the
work-testingartifact that helps in testing workers to our project. - Next, we need to add the dependency to our app level
build.gradle.ktsfile:androidTestImplementation(libs.work.testing)
We have used
androidTestImplementationbecause we will be writing our tests in theandroidTestfolder. Do a Gradle sync to add the dependency to our project. We are now ready to start writing our tests.
Since our PetsSyncWorker class requires some...