Barista


Source link: https://github.com/SchibstedSpain/Barista

Barista

The guy who serves a great Espresso

Espresso is a great tool to test our Android apps via instrumental tests. With them, we can mimic user actions like clicking a button, scrolling a list, selecting an item on a spinner or swiping on a pager. Then, we can assert that a text appears in the screen, an image is visible or invisible, or a button is enabled or not.

On the other hand, if you tried Espresso, you’ll agree that its API is not discoverable.

Barista introduces a discoverable API for the Espresso features. So, you and all the Android team will write instrumental tests with no effort.

Barista’s Actions API

// Click widgets click(R.id.button);
 click(R.string.button_text);
 click("Next");
 clickBack();
  // Click menu items, also overflowed ones clickMenu(R.id.menu_item);
  // Writing into widgets writeToEditText(R.id.edittext, "A great text");
 writeToAutoCompleteTextView(R.id.autocomplete, "Another great text");
  // Select items on AdapterViews clickListViewItem(R.id.listview, 4);
 clickListViewItem(R.id.listview, 4, 5, 6);
 clickRecyclerViewItem(R.id.recycler, 2);
 clickRecyclerViewItem(R.id.recycler, 2, 3, 4);
 clickRecyclerViewItemChild(R.id.recycler, 3, R.id.button);
 clickRecyclerViewItemChild(R.id.recycler, 3, "Button");
  clickSpinnerItem(R.id.spinner, 1);
  // Scroll on AdapterViews scrollTo(R.id.recycler, 42);
  // Select items on RadioButtons and CheckBoxes clickCheckBoxItem(R.id.checkbox_item);
 clickCheckBoxItem("The checkbox text");
 clickRadioButtonItem(R.id.radiogroup, R.id.radio_item);
 clickRadioButtonItem(R.id.radiogroup, "The radio text");
 clickRadioButtonPosition(R.id.radiogroup, 42);
  // Pick data on pickers setDateOnPicker(1986, 03, 23);
  // Interact with dialogs clickDialogPositiveButton();
 clickDialogNeutralButton();
 clickDialogNegativeButton();
  // Scroll on scrolls and pagers scrollTo(R.id.button);
 scrollTo("A widget with this text");
 swipeViewPagerForward();
 swipeViewPagerForward(R.id.pager);
 swipeViewPagerBack();
 swipeViewPagerBack(R.id.pager);
  // Interact with the navigation drawer openDrawer(R.id.drawer);
 closeDrawer(R.id.drawer);
  // Pull to refresh in SwipeRefreshLayout refresh(R.id.swiperefresh);
  // And another tricky feature sleep(2000);
 sleep(2, SECONDS);

Barista’s Assertions API

// Is this view displayed? assertDisplayed("Hello world");
 assertDisplayed(R.string.hello_world);
 assertDisplayed(R.id.button);
  // ...or not? assertNotDisplayed("Hello world");
 assertNotDisplayed(R.string.hello_world);
 assertNotDisplayed(R.id.button);
  // Is this view enabled? assertEnabled("Hello world");
 assertEnabled(R.string.hello_world);
 assertEnabled(R.id.button);
  // ...or not? assertDisabled("Hello world");
 assertDisabled(R.string.hello_world);
 assertDisabled(R.id.button);
  // Hope this view doesn't exist! assertNotExist("Hello world");
 assertNotExist(R.string.hello_world);
 assertNotExist(R.id.button);
  // Is the expected checkbox checked? assertChecked("Checked checkbox");
 assertChecked(R.string.checked_checkbox);
 assertChecked(R.id.checked_checkbox);
  // ...And the other checkbox unchecked? assertUnchecked("Unchecked checkbox");
 assertUnchecked(R.string.unchecked_checkbox);
 assertUnchecked(R.id.unchecked_checkbox);
  // What's the state of the Drawer? assertDrawerIsOpen(R.id.drawer);
 assertDrawerIsClosed(R.id.drawer);
  // Check EditText's hints assertHint(R.id.edittext, R.string.hint);
 assertHint(R.id.edittext, "Hint");
  // Check recyclerView item count against expected item count assertRecyclerViewItemCount(R.id.recycler, 10);
  // And another tricky feature assertThatBackButtonClosesTheApp();
  // Is this ImageView showing this drawable? assertDrawable(R.id.image_view, R.drawable.ic_barista);

Dealing with the runtime permissions dialog

The new Marshmallow permissions system requires checking for permissions at runtime. As Espresso can't interact with the system dialog, Barista offers a way to allow permissions when needed.

PermissionGranter.allowPermissionsIfNeeded(Manifest.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS);

Resetting the app's data before running each test

As tests should be isolated, they need to set the environment before running. Espresso doesn't help achieving it but Barista offers a set of rules to clear the app's data before running each test.

@Rule public ClearPreferencesRule clearPreferencesRule = new ClearPreferencesRule();
 // Clear all app's SharedPreferences @Rule public ClearDatabaseRule clearDatabaseRule = new ClearDatabaseRule();
 // Delete all tables from all the app's SQLite Databases @Rule public ClearFilesRule clearFilesRule = new ClearFilesRule();
 // Delete all files in getFilesDir() and getCacheDir()

Dealing with Flaky tests

We should try to write deterministic tests, but when everything else fails Barista helps you deal with flaky tests using a specific ActivityTestRule and a couple of annotations that repeat your tests multiple times.

// Use this rule instead of Espresso's ActivityTestRule @Rule public FlakyActivityTestRule<FlakyActivity> activityRule = new FlakyActivityTestRule<>(FlakyActivity.class, true, false);
  // Use @AllowFlaky to let flaky tests pass if they pass any time. @Test @AllowFlaky(attempts = 5) public void some_flaky_test() throws Exception {

// ... 
}
  // Use @Repeat to avoid flaky tests from passing if any repetition fails. @Test @Repeat(times = 5) public void some_important_test() throws Exception {

// ... 
}

One rule to rule them all

All previous rules can be added at the same time by just adding the BaristaRule.

@Rule public BaristaRule<MyActivity> baristaRule = BaristaRule.create(MyActivity.class);
  //...  baristaRule.launchActivity();

The rule assumes some sane defaults:

  • Retry flaky tests: 10 attempts
  • Launch activity automatically: false
  • Initial touch mode enabled: true
  • Clear preferences
  • Clear databases
  • Clear files

Magic that Barista does for you

In order to speed up testing, Barista keeps in mind some considerations.

  • Scrolls when needed: Interacting with Espresso in a ScrollView requires you to scroll to each view, which sometimes doesn't work the first time. Also trying to scroll outside a ScrollView produces an Exception, forcing you to change the test depending on the layout. To keep tests simpler, Barista scrolls automatically before interacting with any View, and only does it if needed.
  • Scrolls on all views: Barista scrolls on all scrollable views, including NestedScrollView. Espresso only handles ScrollView and HorizontalScrollView, so people need to open questions on StackOverflow like this. Or... just use Barista.
  • Just interacts with displayed Views: Interacting with Views inside a ViewPager throws AmbiguousViewMatcherException, because the views you interact with will be potentially repeated on different pages. Barista only interacts with displayed widgets, so you can focus on the behavior instead of wasting time on details.

Download

Include the Google Maven repository, required by Espresso 3:

repositories {

  maven {
 url "https://maven.google.com" 
}
 
}

Finally just import Barista as a testing dependency:

androidTestCompile('com.schibsted.spain:barista:1.8.0') {

exclude group: 'com.android.support' 
}

Barista already includes espresso-core and espresso-contrib. If you need any other Espresso package you can add them yourself.

License

Copyright 2017 Schibsted Classified Media Spain S.L.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. 

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