README.md

Patrol

Simple yet powerful Flutter-native UI testing framework eliminating limitations of flutter_test, integration_test, and flutter_driver.

Learn more about Patrol:

• Our extensive documentation
• The article about the first public release
• The first stable 1.0 release article

Patrol custom finders

Flutter's finders are powerful, but not very intuitive to use.

We took them and made something awesome.

Thanks to Patrol's custom finders, you'll take your tests from this:

testWidgets('signs up', (WidgetTester tester) async {
  await tester.pumpWidget(AwesomeApp());
  await tester.pumpAndSettle();

  await tester.enterText(
    find.byKey(Key('emailTextField')),
    '[email protected]',
  );
  await tester.pumpAndSettle();

  await tester.enterText(
    find.byKey(Key('nameTextField')),
    'Charlie',
  );
  await tester.pumpAndSettle();

  await tester.enterText(
    find.byKey(Key('passwordTextField')),
    'ny4ncat',
  );
  await tester.pumpAndSettle();

  await tester.tap(find.byKey(Key('termsCheckbox')));
  await tester.pumpAndSettle();

  await tester.tap(find.byKey(Key('signUpButton')));
  await tester.pumpAndSettle();

  expect(find.text('Welcome, Charlie!'), findsOneWidget);
});

to this:

patrolTest('signs up', (PatrolTester $) async {
  await $.pumpWidgetAndSettle(AwesomeApp());

  await $(#emailTextField).enterText('[email protected]');
  await $(#nameTextField).enterText('Charlie');
  await $(#passwordTextField).enterText('ny4ncat');
  await $(#termsCheckbox).tap();
  await $(#signUpButton).tap();
  
  await $('Welcome, Charlie!').waitUntilVisible();
});

Learn more about custom finders in the docs!

CLI

See packages/patrol_cli.

The CLI is needed to enable Patrol's native automation feature in integration tests.

To run widget tests, you can simply use flutter test.

Package

See packages/patrol.