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I’ve been using Maestro for two very large Flutter apps and it’s been so ahead of every other option is not even funny. No long compilation times, no half bake

I’ve been using Maestro for two very large Flutter apps and it’s been so ahead of every other option is not even funny. No long compilation times, no half baked testing dev experience, supports iOS and Android, no pumpAndSettle BS, No Flutter hacks, multiple cloud providers (cloud.mobile.dev, moropo), you can interact with native elements, so you can work with push notifications, system dialogs, system settings, email clients, web views, browsers, and a very simple test definition files that every capable QA engineer can maintain with very little supervision from developers (no need for dart expertise for writing tests). I can only recommend it.

bartekpacia 2y ago
I'm curious what other solutions you tried to test your Flutter app.
- serial_dev 2y ago
  Vanilla Flutter tests, Honey, Patrol, these are the ones I remember. And yes, amongst those Patrol was the best but at the time we decided, the Maestro experience was significantly better.
  - bartekpacia 2y ago
    haha happy to hear that :) (I created Patrol) ((and then worked on Maestro at mobile.dev briefly)) I too think that for the vast majority of use cases, Maestro is the best solution. Fast and easy to write and run. Also it's cool that it's open-source and has very strong community. I'd be skeptical to have all my tests stored in some SaaS that I can't even run locally (as some other solutions do)
    - serial_dev 2y ago
      Yes, I recognized your name! Maestro being open source, being able to run it locally AND having two providers where we can just sign up and start running our tests was an important factor going with them. We ended up going with Moropo as their pricing matched our needs better. Even if in the future we had issues with them, we could just go to a different provider is a big plus.
divan 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience! Definitely gonna try on real projects.

bartekpacia 2y ago

I'm curious what other solutions you tried to test your Flutter app.

serial_dev 2y ago
Vanilla Flutter tests, Honey, Patrol, these are the ones I remember. And yes, amongst those Patrol was the best but at the time we decided, the Maestro experience was significantly better.
- bartekpacia 2y ago
  haha happy to hear that :) (I created Patrol) ((and then worked on Maestro at mobile.dev briefly)) I too think that for the vast majority of use cases, Maestro is the best solution. Fast and easy to write and run. Also it's cool that it's open-source and has very strong community. I'd be skeptical to have all my tests stored in some SaaS that I can't even run locally (as some other solutions do)
  - serial_dev 2y ago
    Yes, I recognized your name! Maestro being open source, being able to run it locally AND having two providers where we can just sign up and start running our tests was an important factor going with them. We ended up going with Moropo as their pricing matched our needs better. Even if in the future we had issues with them, we could just go to a different provider is a big plus.

divan 2y ago

Thanks for sharing your experience! Definitely gonna try on real projects.