interesting to hear that it's being used to such a degree. It does give me some comfort just to have something bang at the app in case it hits a silly thing I might not have caught. btw, the monkey seems to be particularly fascinated with the ringer volume, for some reason. At least when I run it.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > The main thing we use monkey for is automated testing for statistical > tracking of stability and performance. That is, for a particular build > there is a lab that runs multiple monkeys on the build and collects > statistics on how many events they were able to perform before failing and > what kinds of failures they had. This is aggregated together to get the > overall stability of the platform and the most common kinds of failures that > are impacting stability. Performing continuous monkey runs allows this > information to be aggregated over time to detect if problems are being > introduced or stability is being improved. > For application unit test, the instrumentation facility is the intended > mechanism. This allows you to have much more control within your own > application, and because it is running within that app you can avoid much of > the impact of other things going on across the rest of the system. > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:08 PM, B Lyon <bradfl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> When I first read about the monkey runner, I thought I could use it >> for all kinds of stuff, but after learning a little more I'm not sure >> you would want to use it for controlled tests (like regression checks, >> functional tests). Maybe great to throw a bunch of random stuff at >> your app (and it's fun to watch it go), and it might do something that >> hits a bug you might never have found cause of the bizarre sequence it >> went through, but not sure about how much you can do with it. I kind >> of hope I'm wrong, so someone correct me if I am not giving the monkey >> its due. >> >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> >> wrote: >> > Again, monkeys are NOT deterministic. >> > >> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:52 PM, avi <avinanku...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Diego, >> >> >> >> Thank you for your post..I tried the exact same steps..Running monkey >> >> with verbose option and post processed the file to replay Monkey...but >> >> there was slight deviation from the original run..If you have tried >> >> it, could you please share your solution with me? >> >> >> >> Thanks again >> >> >> >> On May 8, 10:52 pm, Diego Torres Milano <dtmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I haven't tried this but it seems possible. >> >> > >> >> > Step #1: Increase monkey verbosity (-v -v -v) >> >> > >> >> > Step #2: Run the script and collect the output >> >> > >> >> > Step #3: Parse the output to regenerate a monkey script (optionally >> >> > you can modify monkey to spit a valid monkey script) >> >> > >> >> > Step #4: Run the script >> >> > >> >> > On May 7, 2:20 pm, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > > True enough, but the difficulty generally comes between step #1 and >> >> > > step #2, >> >> > > in this sort of scenario of a rare, hard-to-reproduce crash. >> >> > >> >> > > Often you have to figure out everything you need to know to do step >> >> > > #3 >> >> > > (fix >> >> > > the bug) before you can do step #2. >> >> > >> >> > > Even so, do it in this order. Write the test case before fixing it, >> >> > > so >> >> > > you >> >> > > can do step #4 -- verify that you fixed it. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Have you read my blog ?http://dtmilano.blogspot.com >> >> > android junit tests ui linux cult thin clients >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to >> >> android-developers@googlegroups.com >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Dianne Hackborn >> > Android framework engineer >> > hack...@android.com >> > >> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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