Testing Android apps at scale with Nitrogen

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Project Nitrogen is a standalone Kotlin binary that unifies test entry points with a single proto config and moves execution onto devices via a gRPC orchestrator so hosts request runs while devices discover, filter, execute and stream results. It supports unit and instrumentation tests across simulated, virtual, physical and Firebase Test Lab devices, offers host and device plugins (permissions, screenshots, fixtures), and pairs with a virtual device manager that provides 500+ configs and 99.9999% virtual device stability.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:16Googles engineering culture
3. 2:55Android app testing at Google
4. 3:44Building a test runner
5. 4:41Functional UI testing
6. 5:57Unit testing
7. 6:56Android X Test 1 at 0
8. 7:26What would we do differently
9. 9:55Nitrogen solves many problems
10. 10:53You have many different entry points
11. 11:16Unified entry point
12. 12:09Virtual device management
13. 12:58Crossplatform support
14. 13:52Device support
15. 14:12Highlevel architecture
16. 14:29Ondevice infrastructure
17. 15:03Host side runner
18. 15:15Orchestrator service
19. 15:34GRPC
20. 15:58Extension Points
21. 17:31Plugins
22. 18:00Host Plugins
23. 18:45Device Plugins
24. 19:35Test Fixtures
25. 20:40Execution
26. 21:13Android Test Orchestrator
27. 21:47Unified Inconsistent Reporting
28. 21:58Nitrogen instrumentation test
29. 22:43Passing test
30. 23:01Custom reports
31. 23:38Device management
32. 24:05Testing on physical devices
33. 25:35Virtual device infrastructure
34. 26:05Googles virtual device infrastructure
35. 26:34Device providers
36. 27:09Virtual device infrastructure goals
37. 27:39Virtual device infrastructure protocol
38. 28:48Stability
39. 29:38Bootup
40. 30:18File System
41. 31:24Launcher
42. 31:57Reproducibility
43. 33:15Mini Boot Mode
44. 33:45Data Driven Decisions
45. 34:17Is Text to Old
46. 34:50Snapshots
47. 36:13Release date
48. 36:59Thank you

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