KMM project in Android Studio shows `androidTest` everywhere. I can't find `commonTest`. when I chan...

# multiplatform

[Marko Novakovic]

KMM project in Android Studio shows androidTest everywhere. I can't find commonTest. when I change project view to Project I can see commonTest but when I want to run tests am given options: android:(testDebugUnitTest) and android:(testReleaseUnitTest). how to run common tests as plain JVM Kotlin tests?

[ephemient]

testDebugUnitTest and testReleaseUnitTest are local JVM tests. the device instrumentation tests end up in androidAndroidTest with KMM

[Marko Novakovic]

why then are they prefixed with android:? that's what confuses me

[ephemient]

they're built for the android target (and will run with a stub android framework). if you had a jvm target, that would show up separately

[Marko Novakovic]

how to write and run plain Kotlin tests?

[loke]

@Marko Novakovic the tests always has to run in something. So you run the test for the specific platform, which includes all the common tests.

[loke]

In my project I have about 1200 tests, most of them in common. When I run the JVM, Native and JS tests, I end up running over 3000 tests because all the common tests run multiple times. This is what you want, because you need to make sure that your common code works on all platforms.

[Marko Novakovic]

I see. now it makes sense. thanks!