Slow down Espresso

Question

this is regarding Espresso. I am successfully running integration test on a simulator. I think some tests are failing because it's running too fast. Is there a way to slowdown the execution/playback speeD?

Answer 1

It's impossible that a test fails cause to speed. Espresso can synchronize all test operations with the application under test. By default, Espresso waits for UI events in the current message queue to process and default AsyncTasks to complete before it moves on to the next test operation. However if this is not enough for your application you can tell Espresso when to be idle and when not. To do so you have to :

• Implement the IdlingResource interface.
• Register one or more of your IdlingResource(s) with Espresso by calling Espresso.registerIdlingResource in test setup.

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Answer 2

When you record an Espresso Test in Android Studio it will automatically add Sleep statements to tests when there is view interaction to handle the delay. This is the approach that is generated along with the comments:

// Added a sleep statement to match the app's execution delay.
// The recommended way to handle such scenarios is to use Espresso idling resources:
// https://google.github.io/android-testing-support-library/docs/espresso/idling-resource/index.html

try {
    Thread.sleep(700);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Link to the docs