Android Espresso Revealed: Writing Automated UI Tests

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Denys ZelenchukAndroid Espresso Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4315-2_11

11. The Screen Object Design Pattern in Android UI Tests

Denys Zelenchuk¹ 

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Zürich, Switzerland

 

The Screen Object Design Pattern in mobile UI tests is equivalent to the well known Page Object Design Pattern in web tests, which is the abstraction layer representing an interface that allows its users to operate page elements or validate the page state. Since Page Object takes its name from the web page, it is hard to name a mobile application View or Screen, which is represented to the users as a page. This chapter demonstrates how the Screen Object Design Pattern can be applied to Android UI tests using Kotlin. You will learn to create a screen ...