Espresso intent test failing

Question

I\'m learning android instrumentation testing with espresso. I have an app which has a drawer menu and there is a menu called About. I was testing click on that menu item and co

Answer 1

Instead of using IntentsTestRule which is now @deprecated in java, you should use the recommended activityScenarioRule like so:

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
@MediumTest
class YourActivityTest {

    @get:Rule
        val activityScenario = activityScenarioRule()

    @Before
        fun setUp() {
            launchActivity()
            Intents.init()
        }
    
        @After
        fun tearDown() {
            Intents.release()
        }

    @Test
        fun should_goBackTo_MainActivity_onBackButton_click() {

            onView(withId(R.id.goBackBtn)).perform(click())
            intended(hasComponent(hasShortClassName(".MainActivity")))
        }
}

Don't forget adding this in your build.gradle file:

android {
defaultConfig {
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
testOptions {
unitTests {
includeAndroidResources = true
}
}
// testing
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:core:1.3.1-alpha02'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:core-ktx:'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.2'   
//for the activityScenarioRule syntax to work in kotlin,
//We add the ktx version of androidx.test.ext:junit
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit-ktx:1.1.2'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.3.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-intents:3.3.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.3.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:rules:1.3.0'
}