compose-ui-testing-patterns

A guide to testing Jetpack Compose user interfaces, including screen states, user actions, keyboard focus, and visual appearance. Jetpack Compose is Android’s toolkit for building app screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Compose UI tests, screenshot tests, previews, accessibility semantics checks, image-loading fakes, keyboard input, focus, or pressed and hovered states.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a test that matches what you need to prove, without making simple UI checks depend on navigation or other app systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashtanko/compose-android-template/compose-ui-testing-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add ashtanko/compose-android-template --skill compose-ui-testing-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashtanko/compose-android-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 1,637 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Security

Grade A, and why

compose-ui-testing-patterns scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/compose-ui-testing-patterns/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compose: UI testing patterns

Core principle

Test the smallest UI contract that proves the behavior. Prefer plain state-driven UI tests with callbacks. Add integration only when lifecycle, navigation, DI, or platform behavior is the thing under test.

Test target choice

What you need to prove Test shape
Text, button, loading/error branch, conditional content Plain UI Compose test
Callback wiring from click/input Plain UI Compose test
Focus navigation or keyboard behavior Compose test with key input
Visual layout, clipping, elevation, typography, image composition Screenshot test
State holder updates UI correctly State holder/unit test plus one wiring smoke test
Hover, pressed, focused, dragged interaction state Plain UI test with MutableInteractionSource
Navigation, lifecycle, DI integration Integration test

Prefer plain UI tests

If the screen has a state holder/UI split, test the plain UI composable:

composeTestRule.setContent {
    ProfileScreen(
        state = ProfileUiState(name = "Ada", canSave = true),
        onNameChange = {},
        onSaveClick = { saved = true },
        onBackClick = {},
    )
}

composeTestRule.onNodeWithText("Ada").assertIsDisplayed()
composeTestRule.onNodeWithText("Save").performClick()

assertThat(saved).isTrue()

This avoids constructing ViewModels, components, repositories, navigation, and dependency graphs for layout behavior.

Semantics first

Assert semantics when behavior is semantic:

  • Text exists: onNodeWithText.
  • Button is enabled/disabled: assertIsEnabled, assertIsNotEnabled.
  • Content is selected/focused/toggled: use semantics assertions.
  • Content is absent: assertDoesNotExist.

Use test tags for nodes that have no stable user-visible text or where multiple nodes share text. Do not use tags as the first choice for all assertions; user-visible semantics are usually stronger.

Callback testing

Use simple counters or captured values:

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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