Atomic Talk Title: Kotlin for Test Automation in 10ish mins

Kotlin is the official language for Android development and is rapidly becoming a popular choice in many other Software engineering spaces like Backend, and Data Science. Languages like Java, Python, JavaScript, and Ruby are traditional popular choices for Automated testing but what about Kotlin?

As an SDET, you may have questions like?

•  Could it be used for Test Automation as well?
• Why should I write Kotlin code when I already know Java?
• Will it interop with my Java code?
• Is it really as concise and fun to write as people talk about
• What’s all the buzz or hype about?

In this talk, We’ll unpack the syntax a bit and remove your initial barriers while refactoring some traditional Java code. Most of these examples are from a talk given at Google IO by none other than the lead kotlin language designer Andrey Breslav 🙌

In this talk, we’ll understand Kotlin syntax and some of its key features for test automation:

•  Data classes
•  Concise functions
• Extension functions
• Inner functions
• Mutable/Immutable types
• Maps
• Nullability
• Functional style
•  Lifting assignments out of if else and when clause

I would be sharing the slides as well as the code samples used in a Github repo for future references.

Prerequisites for Attendees:

• Java (basics)
•  IntelliJ

Talk Takeaways

• Understand key kotlin language features and syntax
•  Get a taste of how it could look like in their Automation code