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Best Practices for Unit Testing at Revolut
Revolut's iOS team ships weekly updates with minimal regression. Their secret? Making unit tests actually fun to write.
Spotting Latency Regressions Ahead of Time at Teams Mobile
Microsoft Teams Mobile merges 50+ commits daily from 350+ developers. How do they catch performance regressions before users feel the pain?
Sharp Edges in Kotlin Coroutines Testing Tools
Kevin Cianfarini from Cash App discovered a sneaky threading bug that stumped his entire team. The culprit? A misunderstood feature in Kotlin's coroutine testing tools that silently breaks thread assertions.
Structured Logging: The Best Friend You'll Want When Things Go Wrong
Grab's logging bills were spiraling out of control. Their solution? A complete rethink of how they capture what happens in production.
Detecting Memory Leaks in Android Applications
Dropbox's Android team was fighting OutOfMemoryError crashes. The culprit? Memory leaks hiding in activity lifecycles that traditional debugging couldn't catch.
Automating Integration Tests To Ensure Android App Quality
Brian Terczynski from Thumbtack reveals how his team eliminated weekly manual QA sessions that were draining engineering time. Their solution? A fully automated integration testing pipeline that catches bugs be...
Boosting Developer Success with Android Tools
Sameer Samat from Google just announced a move that will put more money back into 99% of Android developers' pockets. Starting July 2021, the economics of building on Google Play are fundamentally changing.
Speeding Up Android Unit Tests with Test Sharding on GitLab CI
Fadel Trivandi Dipantara from Bukalapak faced a brutal reality: 3,000+ test classes taking 2.5 hours to run. His team couldn't ship fast enough, and traditional solutions kept failing.
Measuring Android App Size in CI
Microsoft SwiftKey's team knows that reducing app size once isn't enough. The real challenge? Keeping it small with every code change.
Using Android Screenshot Tests To Verify View Correctness
Emily Fujimoto from Thumbtack reveals how her team caught critical layout bugs that traditional testing completely missed. The solution? Screenshot tests that verify what your UI actually looks like, not just w...
Revamping the Android Testing Pipeline at Dropbox
Dropbox cut their Android CI pipeline from 75 minutes to 25 minutes without switching build systems. Here's how a team of 60+ mobile engineers solved testing at scale.
Leak Canary: What Is It?
Memory leaks are silent killers of Android app performance. They're hard to spot manually, but there's a tool that does the heavy lifting for you.
Pre-submit UI Tests at Pinterest
Pinterest's UI test suite was failing more than 50% of the time. Engineers were drowning in false positives, and tests had lost all credibility.
5 Minute DevOps Effective Testing
Walmart's DevOps team has a bold claim: if you're not testing during development, you're risking the business. Here's why your testing strategy might be fundamentally broken.
Improve Android Testability with Fakes and Factories
Brian Plummer from OkCupid hit a wall adding a simple analytics event: his unit tests broke because static constructs were calling the analytics library directly. Here's how he fixed it with a pattern that made...
Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator
LinkedIn's Android test suite hit tens of thousands of tests, pushing execution times into the danger zone. Developer productivity was tanking.
Automation for WebView Testing
Ferawati Hartanti Pratiwi from Bukalapak breaks down WebView automation with Appium. If you've struggled with context switching between native and web elements in mobile testing, this practical guide cuts throu...
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Spotify cut iOS pre-merge CI times by 75% with one infrastructure change. Here's how they validated and scaled their approach.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 6)
Airbnb's Android tests take 2 hours to run but finish in minutes. Here's the CI infrastructure that makes it possible.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 5)
Airbnb automated screenshot testing across thousands of Android screens to catch UI regressions that manual QA kept missing. Here's how they built it.
How to Fix App Quality Issues with Android Vitals (Part 2)
Your Android app's crash rate could be killing your Play Store rankings without you realizing it. Google's Android Vitals dashboard now has powerful new features to help you catch issues before users do.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 4)
Airbnb's Android tests were failing randomly. The culprit? Everything from cached drawables to delayed runnables creating unpredictable test behavior.
How to Fix App Quality Issues with Android Vitals (Part 1)
Over 40% of one-star reviews on Google Play mention app stability issues. Google's Android Vitals can help you fix them before users bail.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 3)
Airbnb's Android team built a custom testing framework that runs thousands of automated tests across fragments without writing repetitive test code. Here's the architecture that makes it possible.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 2)
Airbnb's Android team was drowning in manual QA and flaky Espresso tests. Then they built a testing framework that changed everything.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 1)
Airbnb built a system that automatically tests every click in their Android app without writing a single Espresso test. Here's how they turned interaction testing from tedious to automatic.
Our Android testing process
Headspace went from <20% test coverage to 80%+ during a complete app rewrite. Here's how they built a testing strategy that actually works.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 4: Testing ViewModels)
Airbnb built a testing framework so elegant that their ViewModels tests read like plain English. Here's how they made testing actually enjoyable.
Targeted Code Coverage Reports For Android Continuous Builds
Brian Terczynski from Thumbtack reveals how their Android team solved a critical problem: developers couldn't see which specific lines in their code changes lacked test coverage. The solution? Two custom report...
Running Android Instrumentation Tests on Circle CI Without a Third Party Service
Doğu Deniz Uğur challenges CircleCI's own documentation. While the official docs say Android emulator tests aren't supported on their Linux VMs, he found a workaround that eliminates the need for Firebase Test ...