Advanced Android Espresso Testing

Course details

Take an in-depth look at using the Android Espresso library to write Android UI tests. In this course, Chiu-Ki Chan tackles advanced topics in Android Espresso testing, including intents, hermetic test environment, and IdlingResource. She covers incoming and outgoing intents, dependency injection, Mockito and Dagger, and more. If you're an Android developer interested in implementing automated testing as part of the development lifecycle, this course can help to equip you with the techniques you need to write repeatable UI tests.

Learning objectives
Incoming and outgoing intents
How intents are used
Dependency injection
Why extract dependencies?
IdlingResource
Mockito and Dagger

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Exercise files

1. Intents

04 - App - Cat Names
05 - How intents are used
06 - Incoming intents - Empty
07 - Incoming intents - Activity rule
08 - Incoming intents - Known theme
09 - Incoming intents - Loading string
10 - Incoming intents - Unknown theme
11 - Outgoing intents - Launch activity
12 - Outgoing intents - Verify intent
13 - Outgoing intents - How to match
14 - Stubbing - Intending
15 - Stubbing - ActivityResult

2. Hermetic Test Environment

16 - App - Greetings
17 - Dependency injection
18 - GreetingApplication
19 - Why extract dependencies
20 - TestApplication
21 - CustomTestRunner
22 - Mockito
23 - Dagger
24 - Dagger dependencies
25 - Dagger component
26 - Use Dagger in application
27 - Dagger TestComponent
28 - MainActivityTest

3. IdlingResource

29 - Synchronization
30 - Idling resource
31 - App - Loading dialogue
32 - Failing test
33 - Dialogue fragment idling resource
34 - Using idling resource
35 - Wrap-up

Conclusion

36 - Next steps