Android Espresso Revealed: Writing Automated UI Tests

© Denys Zelenchuk 2019

Denys ZelenchukAndroid Espresso Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4315-2_1

1. Getting Started with Espresso for Android

Denys Zelenchuk¹ 

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Zürich, Switzerland

 

Espresso for Android is a lightweight, fast, and customizable Android testing framework, designed to provide concise and reliable automated UI tests. At the end of October 2013, Espresso was open sourced by Google after it was announced at the Google Test Automation Conference. From that moment it has been gaining popularity across Android software and test engineers. Now it is the most popular testing framework for the Android platform because its features and development are driven by Google and the Android Open Source community.

This chapter describes Espresso’s ...