We have enhanced the features provided by Android Studio’s Espresso Test Recorder. All these additional features are recordable through Super Espresso Test Recorder. Features which are implemented are
- Add N number of methods within a Test Class.
- Add wait statement on any of the View.
- Add a screenshot test while recording the test.
This repository contains the Super Espresso Test Recorder plugin in recorderlibs, replace the existing test-recorder plugin in Android Studio (AndroidStudio/plugins/test-recorder/lib/test-recorder.jar) with this plugin. Restart the studio. Will share the Super Espresso Test Recoder code base soon in separate GitHub location.
Launch the test recorder.
In the above image, you can see multiple new buttons are added. We are going to see about their functionalities.
When we click on New Method, a new dialog will be shown. All we need to give a method name and click OK. Limitation here is first method name in the generated Test File will be generated by the tool. We can provide test methods names from the second case onwards.
Test recorder shows following view when we click on Add wait. As we can see user can select a particular view from the rendered screenshot or from the drop down in the panel. Maximum timeout can also be provided. Default timeout given is 20000 ms. If no view is selected it will wait on root view. Internally it uses IdlingResource to wait.
Adding screenshot can be of three types. User can select a dialog view or any view in the rendered screen or root view which is default. Combo box provided to select among these three options.
When User selects Specific view, layout hierarchy will be provided in the combo box and rendered screen also will be shown. User can select a particular view or view group from the rendered screen or combo box.
Once we done with the test scripts recording, user can select main OK button to stop the recording, Test Class file will be created in the com.saddala.espresso..view.tests package
Custom dependent project for this Super Espresso Test Recorder is added into this project. All the files are incuded into the test app’s androidTest folder.
We have used Facebook’s screenshot-tests-for-android plugin to generate screenshots and execute recorded tests. Running recorded tests will be depended on the Facebook’s plugin. You can check this page here to execute your tests.
There are some links which can be useful to work with Super Espresso Test Recorder:
- Screenshot Testing Framework
- Screenshot Tests For Android
- Android Testing Support Library official documentation
- Espresso Cheat Sheet
- Espresso Idling Resources
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