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- Jarosław Michalik
- November 30, 2024
- 11:03 am
Eight years ago, I almost punched my code reviewer. Today, I'm that "annoying" person leaving detailed comments on PRs. Here's what I learned.
- Jarosław Michalik
- November 25, 2024
- 12:34 am
Building an Android developer career isn’t just about coding—it’s about the experiences that push you to grow. Whether it’s connecting with other Android devs at meetups or mastering the fundamentals, it’s those key moments that shape how you approach the craft.
- Jarosław Michalik
- October 31, 2023
- 12:25 pm
Short answer: you don't.
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- Jarosław Michalik
- October 31, 2023
- 12:23 pm
When it comes to testing in Kotlin, we often default to jUnit as the go-to framework.
However, there's an alternative that offers a variety of powerful features – Kotest.
Kotest provides a variety of spec styles, each with its unique capabilities, that make writing tests a breeze.
- Jarosław Michalik
- February 13, 2023
- 7:07 pm
In this article we will explore several ways of creating stubs… using Kotlin idioms.
- Jarosław Michalik
- January 2, 2023
- 4:12 pm
Are you programming for Android and wondering how to write tests for your app? Or maybe you don't have any tests in your project and don't know how to live? Get to know my philosophy of creating tests for Android.
- Jarosław Michalik
- July 6, 2022
- 3:26 pm
Examples of de-mocking test code as presented on Droidcon Berlin 2022.
- Jarosław Michalik
- May 8, 2022
- 3:04 pm
Most of the times while stubbing with Mockito or MockK you will use doReturn construction. But do you know, that you can stub your test double method in other way – with doAnswer. Let's take a look a both stubbing types.
- Jarosław Michalik
- February 18, 2022
- 2:59 pm
Mockito cannot mock/spy because your class is final class? We can fix that.
- Jarosław Michalik
- February 12, 2022
- 1:40 pm
When you have existing test suite containing jUni4 tests and you want to migrate slowly to jUnit5 to make use of new APIs and modern test engine, you may encounter some issues – not all tests will be visible in reports.
- Jarosław Michalik
- November 28, 2021
- 1:32 pm
JVM and Kotlin testing libraries - Gradle dependencies and latest versions.
- Jarosław Michalik
- September 7, 2021
- 1:20 pm
Learn how to create custom Timber Tree to test log outputs in unit tests. Mocking Timber, unit testing logs.
- Jarosław Michalik
- July 20, 2021
- 12:52 pm
Do you want to assert that SLF4J actually logged warn with proper message? Check this guide on how to mock logger in tests, in Kotlin and Java.
- Jarosław Michalik
- June 14, 2021
- 12:45 pm
Strikt is assertion library built for Kotlin with API which allows building multi assertions and gives us readable assertion errors.
- Jarosław Michalik
- May 10, 2021
- 7:49 am
Writing tests involves repeating some patterns over and over again. IntelliJ IDEA can shorten the process of test creation with the help of live templates.
- Jarosław Michalik
- April 6, 2021
- 7:00 am
IntelliJ is great tool for developer productivity. Check how can we adjust IDE to our preferences. Tutorial: how to create custom live template?
- Jarosław Michalik
- February 20, 2021
- 6:38 am
The story of debugging date time formatting issue. It passes locally, it fails on CI. How can it be?
- Jarosław Michalik
- February 9, 2021
- 6:20 am
KotlinTesting.com now has stories!
- Jarosław Michalik
- January 14, 2021
- 8:56 pm
Nested tests in Junit5 allows us grouping test cases. Check how to do this in presenter tests.
- Jarosław Michalik
- January 2, 2021
- 8:32 pm
Frequently Asked Questions - now I'm giving answers about things you've asked me on 2020 conferences.
- Jarosław Michalik
- December 2, 2020
- 8:10 pm
MockK over the years became my go-to library for mocking suspend functions. Its intuitive syntax and built-in coroutine support simplify testing asynchronous operations. With MockK, you can easily replicate complex behaviors of coroutine-based functions, ensuring tests are reflective of real-world scenarios.
Mock - fake version of an object used in testing to check how other parts of a program interact with it.
Stub - fake part of the program that always returns the same result.
This article will show you how to use both in testing Kotlin code with MockK.
- Jarosław Michalik
- October 29, 2020
- 8:02 pm
Functional tests in Ktor - how to mock application server with TestApplicationEngine?
- Jarosław Michalik
- October 20, 2020
- 7:52 pm
Refactoring Java Mockito based test suite to Mockito-Kotlin DSL
- Jarosław Michalik
- September 24, 2020
- 3:28 pm
How to test Retrofit calls? Example of testing requests executed with Retrofit and OkHttp.
- Jarosław Michalik
- September 2, 2020
- 2:59 pm
Story of an attempt to test the code generated by DataBinding library.
- Jarosław Michalik
- August 11, 2020
- 2:08 pm
Creating parameterized tests in Kotlin: data driven testing, collection inspections and generating test cases with FreeSpec.
- Jarosław Michalik
- June 5, 2020
- 12:06 pm
When the test passes, when it fails and why it crashes? In this short note we will try to find the answers for those questions.
- Jarosław Michalik
- May 30, 2020
- 11:54 am
Using Spek to generate test cases
- Jarosław Michalik
- May 30, 2020
- 11:16 am
In this example we will try to implement VenueDetailsViewModel in TDD style. TDD (Test Driven Development) is development technique, where developer relies on unit tests created before actual implementation.
- Jarosław Michalik
- May 25, 2020
- 11:06 am
This repository contains examples of basic unit tests written in Kotlin. In specific directories you can find gradle buildscript with needed dependencies and configuration, simple unit test and parameterized test.