Best way to test enqueueUniqueWork and cancelUniqueWork WorkManager

Question

What is the best way to test the methods enqueueUniqueWork and cancelUniqueWork in Kotlin in Android? I only found answers for testing work with Id, but I have a unique name.

Answer 1

After a lot of searching, I found this tutorial: https://medium.com/@thefallen.class/unit-testing-workmanager-with-dependencies-8ffff7ef5476

And also android documentation: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager/how-to/integration-testing

It is not possible to directly tests the methods enqueueUniqueWork and cancelUniqueWork with Mocks only.

I needed libraries such as

• androidx.test:core
• androidx.work:work-testing
• org.robolectric:robolectric

androidx.work:work-testing allowed me to initialize a Test WorkerManager thanks to the context provided by androidx.test:core

@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
class ClassTest{
   private lateinit classToTest: ClassToTest
   private lateinit context: Context
   
   @Before
   fun setUp(){
      context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext()
      val config = Configuration.Builder()
            .setWorkerFactory((WorkerFactory.getDefaultWorkerFactory()))
            .setExecutor(SynchronousExecutor())
            .setMinimumLoggingLevel(Log.DEBUG)
            .build()
      WorkManagerTestInitHelper.initializeTestWorkManager(context, config)
   }
}

Then, I managed to get the state of my unique enqueued work and cancelled work thanks to lines such as

WorkManager.getInstance(context).getWorkInfosForUniqueWork("name").get()[0].state

Which returned elements such as WorkInfo.State.CANCELLED or WorkInfo.State.ENQUEUED

I am not 100% if this is the best method to do so, but it allowed me to test what I wanted. Hoping it could help anyone else