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• Issue #681

  🚀 Faster Android app releases with automated QA

  Manual testing on Android is slow, fragmented, and unreliable—and without broad device coverage, critical bugs slip through. QA Wolf delivers 80% automated coverage in weeks, running tests on high-fidelity Android emulators with full gesture, sensor, and visual support. Tests run in 100% parallel with zero flakes—so you can release faster, with confidence. Schedule a demo.
• Issue #680

  Testing a LottieAnimation in Compose

  Jordi Coll Marin presents several effective strategies for reliably testing Lottie animations in Jetpack Compose UI tests.
• Issue #680

  🚀 Faster Android app releases with automated QA

  Manual testing on Android is slow, fragmented, and unreliable—and without broad device coverage, critical bugs slip through. QA Wolf delivers 80% automated coverage in weeks, running tests on high-fidelity Android emulators with full gesture, sensor, and visual support. Tests run in 100% parallel with zero flakes—so you can release faster, with confidence. Schedule a demo.
• Issue #676

  Duolingo cuts manual testing 70 % with GPT-Driver

  AI-powered GPT-Driver plugs into Espresso/XCUI to turn flaky 12-line scripts into one natural-language command. Duolingo cut manual regression 70 %. Salesforce ships tests 50-60 % faster with half the upkeep. Used by Groupon to shorten release cycles. Read the case study here.
• Issue #675

  Testing Compose Desktop apps: preparations

  Thomas Künneth discusses preparing Compose Multiplatform desktop apps for testing across OS and CPU architectures, stressing cross-platform build validation.
• Issue #675

  Testing a Gradle Plugin that interacts with Git

  Marco Gomiero details how to automate testing of a Gradle plugin that interacts with Git by using Gradle TestKit and local bare repositories.
• Issue #674

  Tools and patterns for scalable Android app testing

  Jose Alcérreca covers screenshot testing, Roboelectric, managing different form factors, and using Espresso Device and Gradle Managed Devices (GMD) for scalable testing.
• Issue #674

  Android Testing Strategies

  Optimize your Android testing with a scalable strategy that helps manage your app's test load and device configurations.
• Issue #673

  Sergio Sastre, Screenshot testing and TDD

  Sergio Sastre discusses screenshot testing and test-driven development (TDD) in Android, sharing insights on how visual regression testing can improve UI reliability and developer confidence.
• Issue #673

  Testing in Android: What to Test, and How to Test It

  Jov Mit's coding livestream with integrated vs. integration tests, doing outside-In TDD on Android, testing in a modularized setup, and more.
• Issue #673

  Effective Strategies for Testing Asynchronous Kotlin Code

  Ignacio Carrión shares patterns for reliably testing Kotlin coroutines and flows, focusing on controlling coroutine execution in unit tests.
• Issue #672

  Full Guide to Testing APIs on Android & KMP With Ktor MockEngine

  Philipp Lackner shows how you can work with Ktor MockEngine to mock API calls for your tests. It also includes a guide on integration testing in general.
• Issue #672

  The Fourth Beta of Android 16

  Google announces the fourth and final beta of Android 16, marking platform stability with finalized APIs and app-facing behaviors, encouraging developers to complete compatibility testing and prepare apps, SDKs, and tools before the official Q2 2025 release.
• Issue #671

  Netflix App Testing At Scale

  Ken Yee of Netflix outlines their scalable Android testing strategy, emphasizing team-owned tests, layered test types, and broad physical device coverage to ensure quality and reduce flakiness.
• Issue #670

  Bringing Fuzz Testing to Kotlin with kotlinx.fuzz

  JetBrains introduces kotlinx.fuzz, a Kotlin-specific fuzz testing framework that uncovers edge cases and bugs by generating random inputs, enhancing reliability in Kotlin libraries.
• Issue #669

  Write Testable Time-Dependent Coroutine Code in Kotlin

  Omar Sahl explains how to write testable, time-dependent coroutine code in Kotlin by replacing System.currentTimeMillis() with a TestCoroutineScheduler-based time source, facilitating more reliable and controlled testing environments.
• Issue #669

  Android Devs Live Stream - 2-Apr-2025

  Jov Mit continues this Android development live stream with: automated end-to-end testing, design patterns: Bulder, Factory, Adapter, Facade, managing 3rd party library code & reusability, and more.
• Issue #668

  How to Automatically Test Jetpack Compose Navigation

  Oliver Vicente demonstrates automating navigation testing in Jetpack Compose by first implementing traditional navigation, developing corresponding tests, and then migrating to type-safe navigation introduced in Navigation Component 2.8.0.
• Issue #666 🐐

  Unit Testing Lifecycle and State in ViewModels

  Marcello Galhardo introduces ViewModelScenario, a helper in Lifecycle 2.9.0-alpha01, to facilitate unit testing of ViewModels by simulating lifecycle events and state restoration.
• Issue #666 🐐

  How to Develop Firebase Genkit Flows

  Nozomi Koborinai provides a guide on enhancing local testing environments for Firebase Genkit functions by integrating the Firebase Local Emulator Suite.
• Issue #665

  Is Your Testing Stack Holding You Back?

  Tired of slow test cycles, scattered tools, endless context switching? Meet BrowserStack Test Platform—an open, flexible solution with AI-driven workflows, 20,000+ real devices, & real-time insights. Deliver high-quality software up to 50% faster. Let’s build the test stack your team wants. Try now!
• Issue #665

  Accelerating Android UI Testing Through Parallelization

  Mohamed Fotouh Shalan explains how test sharding in Firebase Test Lab and Flank can significantly reduce Android UI test execution time.
• Issue #663

  Unit Testing ViewModels

  Marcello Galhardo introduces ViewModelScenario, a helper in Lifecycle 2.9.0-alpha01 that simplifies unit testing of ViewModels by facilitating the testing of onCleared() and state restoration.
• Issue #663

  Deprecating idling resource libraries

  Jake Wharton announces the deprecation of two idling condition testing libraries, expressing concerns that idling resources expose application internals to testing frameworks, leading to brittle tests.
• Issue #660

  Testing | Jetpack Compose Tips

  Behavior tests can use DeviceConfigurationOverride, a new testing API to simulate different device configurations to avoid needing multiple emulators to run a full test suite.