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• Issue #358

  Deep Dive into writing Performance Tests with @JankTest

  Performance testing is something rare that we see in nowadays application development. Great tutorial by Marcos Holgado about how to use @JankTest to detect framerate drops.
• Issue #358

  Android Testing with JUnit & mockito

  Ahmed Elshahawi gives an example of how to use JUnit & mockito
• Issue #353

  Stepping into Activity tests with ActivityScenarios

  The testing team at Google introduced the Android X Test libraries, amongst which we can find ActivityScenario, a new way to test Activities and code related to them. These APIs made it to a stable version, so Roberto Orgiu shows how to use them.
• Issue #352

  Espresso Testing and Screen Robots: Getting Started

  In this Espresso testing tutorial, Victoria Gonda shows how to create UI tests with Espresso and how to leverage Screen Robots to make them clear and maintainable.
• Issue #352

  Superior Testing: Make Fakes not Mocks

  After years of writing and reading tests, Artur Dryomov discovered that mocking is either overused or underused; striking the right balance seems to be a complicated issue.
• Issue #347

  Android Developer Options - Simulate Display Cutout

  In this video, Nate Ebel looks at an Android Developer Option to simulate a display cutout which can make testing your cutout support easier.
• Issue #345

  Advanced UI testing

  Piotr Mądry shares some advanced tips on using Espresso for testing.
• Issue #345

  Testing LiveData in JUnit 4 and JUnit 5

  Architecture components are one of the most exciting things that happened to Android in the past years. But how do you effectively go about and testing this? Jeroen Mols shows you how.
• Issue #344

  Effective LiveData and ViewModel Testing

  In this post Josef Raska explains how to test LiveData and ViewModels effectively. He explains how to implement your own TestObserver and what to look for. Also be sure to checkout his library.
• Issue #344

  livedata-testing

  TestObserver to easily test LiveData and make assertions on them.
• Issue #344

  AndroidX’s FragmentFactory with Dagger for Fragment dependency injection

  In this article by Alex Townsend you'll learn how to leverage a custom FragmentFactory for constructor injection using a library like Dagger. The basic idea is to improve testability by enabling Fragment testing in isolation.
• Issue #343

  A view on testing Android apps

  In this article, Alin provides a guideline for writing a robust unit test suite so that your app can have better test coverage and reliable tests.
• Issue #339

  Can you fix the test?

  Learning from analyzing code is one of the greatest ways to improve your skills. Jeroen Mols brings a fun little quiz for both testing gurus as novices, with a deep dive into the how and why of awesome tests.
• Issue #339

  Level Up in Kotlin

  Pamela Hill aims to help Android developers level up their Kotlin skills, focussing on intermediate/expert language features such as coroutines, DSLs, and libraries/frameworks such as Koin for dependency injection, and Spek for testing.
• Issue #339

  Sarah-Jane Gallitz: Testing Kotlin Apps – Let’s make this easy

  Shares real-world examples of how to make testing your (Kotlin) App easier and quicker so you can have more time and more confidence in the quality of your releases.
• Issue #339

  Real world testing thoughts

  In this mini fragment, Donn and Kaushik share some thoughts on real world testing with Android development – a favorite topic of theirs.
• Issue #338

  Simplify your Android development with Koin

  Arnaud Giuliani looks at using Koin, from basic dependency injection to the Android architecture's components, without forgetting the testing part
• Issue #335

  Mobile testing: you’re probably doing it wrong if

  If you can’t test web, native & hybrid mobile apps in a common platform. If you can’t see test data for real devices (both on-premise & in the cloud), or if you can’t use automation frameworks/mobile tools you already have and love. It’s time to check out Kobiton.
• Issue #333

  Robolectric 4.0 Released!

  With the release of Robolectric 4.0 and androidx.test 1.0.0, both testing environments are converging on a set of common test APIs.
• Issue #333

  Fail safe, not fast

  Mirek Stanek thinks your developer mantra should be: ship fast, iterate often and don’t crash. But how do you make this mantra a reality? There are four key elements: process, testing, engineering, and people.
• Issue #331

  Mobile testing: you’re probably doing it wrong if

  If you can’t test web, native & hybrid mobile apps in a common platform. If you can’t see test data for real devices (both on-premise & in the cloud), or if you can’t use automation frameworks/mobile tools you already have and love. It’s time to check out Kobiton.
• Issue #331

  Robolectric Testing with AndroidJunitRunner

  iñaki villar shows how to write a simple test with Robolectric 4 and AndroidJunitRunner/Espresso, introducing some of the new upcoming features of Project Nitrogen.
• Issue #326

  Mobile testing: you’re probably doing it wrong if

  If you can’t test web, native & hybrid mobile apps in a common platform. If you can’t see test data for real devices (both on-premise & in the cloud), or if you can’t use automation frameworks/mobile tools you already have and love. It’s time to check out Kobiton.
• Issue #326

  KotlinSnapshot

  Snapshot testing is an assertion strategy based on the comparision of the instances serialized using a human readable format we version as part of the repository source code.
• Issue #326

  Smile, Kotlin Snapshot testing is here

  Kotlin Snapshot is a testing assertion library that simplifies how to make assertions. This library focuses on a different way of asserting the correct behavior of a test thanks to the use of snapshots.