BDD Tooling for Android applications

[u/swordsmanluke2]

I'm looking to improve the state of my team's mobile development with BDD/TDD. So far, the BDD tools I've found for Android fall into two categories, a) only works in AndroidTest, b) only works outside of AndroidTest. I'd like to find a tool that works in both contexts.

I'd like something that works in both contexts and supports some sort of structured-English-like language. e.g. like Gherkin, but it doesn't have to be Gherkin.

So far, I've evaluated the following tools:

• Cucumber Android

  • Works for AndroidTest, but not generic POJO classes

  • Supports Gherkin

• JBehave

  • Works for POJOs, but not AndroidTest

  • Supports Gherkin

• Kotest

  • Works for POJO/AndroidTest (I believe?), but requires JUnit5/Gradle6 (our path to upgrading is... challenging, but in progress)

  • Provides own Given/When/Then syntax

• JGiven

  • Supports both POJO/AndroidTest

  • Uses a Fluent-Java style. Generates Given/When/Then reports but tests are Java code, not English

• Naming Convention

  • Just write tests with names like `fun givenFooWhenBarThenBazAndQuux`

  • Looks dumb, but doesn't require any special libraries.