Kotlin + Design Patterns * UI Tests = Happiness
summary
The talk explains how to make UI tests more maintainable by applying design patterns (including Screen Robots and the Builder pattern) together with Kotlin. It walks through several design patterns and step-by-step examples of applying them within a project to produce cleaner, more maintainable test code.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:40Repetitive tests problem
- 4:08Robot pattern for UI tests
- 7:38Builder pattern in tests
- 10:11Chaining actions with Robot
- 12:19Factory pattern for simplicity
- 14:06Kotlin extension functions
- 17:32Clean code benefits
- 18:58Debugging with robots
- 20:08Logic over tools
- 21:14Q&A
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