Orchestrate your UI tests with Conductor

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Conductor is an open source CLI and Kotlin library that runs black‑box Android (and iOS) UI flows without installing test APKs, replacing the ADB binary with a no ADB binary Kotlin implementation and installing via brew install for the demo. It drives UI Automator‑style interactions using accessibility text or view IDs, retries taps to reduce flakiness, dumps view hierarchies for assertions, and pairs with mitmproxy replay to record/replay HTTP for stable networked tests. Demo flow (Clock → set alarm) runs and failures reproduce deterministically.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speakers
2. 1:09Why UI testing matters
3. 6:30State of UI testing tools
4. 13:36Live demo of Conductor
5. 22:07How Conductor works
6. 26:23Mocking network traffic with Mitmproxy
7. 30:14Summary and Q&A

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