What's new in Android testing tools
summary
Android Studio delegates unit and instrumented tests to the android gradle test runner (canary Android Studio + AGP required) so local and CI runs match; a new unified test platform (UTP) is the extensible executor. Gradle provisions gradle managed virtual devices, runs tests in parallel, uses emulator snapshots to restore device state, and generates emulator snapshots on assertion failure (default two snapshots per device per test run, configurable). Test results stream back to a multi‑device test matrix.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to testing
- 1:02Improving test consistency
- 2:44Unified test platform
- 3:34Gradle managed devices
- 5:55Parallel test execution
- 7:08Debugging with snapshots
- 10:27Conclusion
