what is the correct way to use suspend functions i...

# coroutines

[Danish Ansari]

what is the correct way to use suspend functions inside androidTest source set
Currently I'm testing Room DB Dao in Android and writing test like this

runBlocking {
    movieDao.insertCategory(popularMovies)
}

I think that there might be a better way to write test for such scenario because if I have 20 test than I have to write runBlocking 20 times

[Javier]

Until Coroutines 1.6 there is no alternative, only runBlockingTest, but you would have the same problem

[Javier]

With 1.6 I think suspend test functions are allowed

[Joffrey]

@Javier I believe the decision that was taken on this topic is that it is sufficient to implement it on library side and would be too complex to include as a language feature. So you'll have to use runBlockingTest even in the future AFAIU. The biggest problem currently is that it's only available on JVM platform at the moment because the kotlinx-coroutines-test library is not multiplatform yet.

[Javier]

Where there is more info about that? I think it has not to be resolved inside Kotlin itself, just the test framework library, no?

[Joffrey]

Here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-22228#focus=Comments-27-4791713.0-0