Testing has always been troublesome for many of us. While it may work well at the beginning over time writing and maintaining tests usually becomes a liability rather than an asset. Writing very well structured and maintainable tests hard in its nature, but with readability killing languages like Java, it was an unbearable burden.

Several years ago the Kotlin language has appeared. It's excellent DSL capabilities have fostered the birth of many testing libraries and frameworks. But do these frameworks and libraries will finally liberate us from the pain when writing and maintaining tests?

In this session, we will look into the modern testing framework KotlinTest and the powerful library MockK as well as into some best practices of writing tests with Kotlin.