Sharing experiences around android UI testing

Writing UI tests on Flutter is not that different from other mobile technologies. We basically need to interact with our app as any other user would do and double check that our UI looks exactly as it should look.

In order to allow us to write UI, each technology has its own component that allows this programmatic interaction. In the Flutter case we have the flutter_driver package which, according to the Flutter documentation “provides tools to create instrumented apps and drive those apps from a test suite”.

Our example will be based on the test project created by default whenever we create a new Flutter project. For those not familiar with the project, it basically shows a counter text in the middle of the screen and a floating action button used to increment the counter. Our goal is to write a simple flutter UI test to verify the counter works as expected.

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