Updating an EditText with Espresso

Question

You can use the replaceText method.

onView(allOf(withClassName(endsWith("EditText")), withText(is("Test"))))
    .perform(replaceText("Another test"));

Three things to try:

1. You can run performs in succession.

onView(...)
    .perform(clearText(), typeText("Some Text"));

2. There is a recorded issue on the Espresso page which was marked as invalid (but is still very much a bug). A workaround for this is to pause the test in-between performs.

public void test01(){
    onView(...).perform(clearText(), typeText("Some Text"));
    pauseTestFor(500);
    onView(...).perform(clearText(), typeText("Some Text"));
}

private void pauseTestFor(long milliseconds) {
    try {
        Thread.sleep(milliseconds);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

3. Are you absolutely sure that your EditText contains the text, "Test"?

To set value in EditText with Espresso simple like this

onView(withId(R.id.yourIdEditText)).perform(typeText("Your Text"))

I was having a similar issue and solved it using the containsString matcher and Class.getSimpleName(). Like this:

onView(withClassName(containsString(PDFViewPagerIVZoom.class.getSimpleName()))).check(matches(isDisplayed()));

You can see the full code here

You could try two things. First I would try to use

onView(withId(<id>).perform... 

This way you would always have access to the EditText field even when other EditText fields are on the screen.

If that's not an option, you could split up your perform calls.

onView(allOf(withClassName(endsWith("EditText")),withText(is("Test")))).perform(clearText());
onView(withClassName(endsWith("EditText"))).perform(click());
onView(withClassName(endsWith("EditText"))).perform(typeText("Another Test");