Write Android user interface (UI) tests using Google Espresso for Android. You’ll cover all the major topics of writing functional UI automated tests using the Espresso testing framework, including different ways of running automated tests, architecting test projects in an easy and maintainable way, and using tools which help to implement automated tests with less effort.

Android Espresso Revealed explains the basics of using Espresso to write automated UI tests, and how to customize the framework for advanced functionality. The author provides examples in both Java and Kotlin, and includes dealing with network operations in UI tests, testing application accessibility, implementing supervised monkey tests, and more.

What You Will Learn

Write Espresso tests with both Kotlin and Java including test project migration from Java to Kotlin
Test web views inside the application undertest
Use Espresso to set up test devices or emulators to minimize test flakiness and run tests in Firebase Test Lab
Verify and stub intents with Espresso-Intents
Move test projects to AndroidX
Test notifications or operate on third-party apps during Espresso test execution
Apply different test architecture approaches to the test project to reduce maintenance effort
Implement supervised monkey tests using Espresso and UIAutomator

Who This Book Is For
Engineers with experience of Android test automation will benefit from this book

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Zürich, Switzerland

Denys Zelenchuk

About the author

Denys Zelenchuk's professional career as Test Engineer started in Poland in 2010. Starting from 2011, he has been involved in testing mobile applications. He was working at companies like Tieto Poland, XING (Hamburg, Germany) and currently is working and living in Zurich Switzerland in Numbrs Personal Finance AG company. As of October 2013, he's been using Espresso for Android test automation framework to write automated tests.

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Book Title: Android Espresso Revealed
Book Subtitle: Writing Automated UI Tests
Authors: Denys Zelenchuk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4315-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4314-5Published: 01 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4315-2Published: 01 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 99 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mobile Computing, Java, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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