java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No static method registerDefaultInstance with Firebase Performance and Espresso Instrumented Tests

In my case it seems to be caused by protobuf-lite:3.0.1 dependency from recently updated androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.4.0' which I was able to fix with this exclude

androidTestImplementation (androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.4.0'){
    exclude module: "protobuf-lite"
}

In case of KTX

testImplementation('androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.4.0') {
        exclude(module = "protobuf-lite")
    }

It looks like you might need to modify how you specify your dependency and use something like this:

implementation(Deps.Firebase.performance)
    {
        exclude(group = "com.google.protobuf", module="protobuf-java")
    }

Source:

https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/1907

This is work:

androidTestImplementation("androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.4.0") 
{
    exclude(group: "com.google.protobuf", module: "protobuf-lite")
}

This is work:

androidTestImplementation('androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.4.0') {
exclude module: "protobuf-lite"

} androidTestImplementation ('androidx.test.espresso:espresso-accessibility:3.4.0') { exclude module: "protobuf-lite" }