[android-developers] Re: Whats the key difference between Monkey Runner and Monkey tool?

2011-03-18 Thread pradeep
Hi Monkey Runner tool is built on monkey tool. Monkey internally consists of a server, which can be started using its command --port, which is not being used very often. Monkey Runner tool which runs at host[PC], [which is basically a jython script], starts the monkey server at some port and

[android-developers] Re: Whats the key difference between Monkey Runner and Monkey tool?

2011-02-02 Thread A. Elk
You can send keystrokes and touch events with the MonkeyRunner API. It's available in AOSP and Android 2.3, and documented in Android 2.3. On Feb 1, 9:51 pm, Bharathi raja bharathiraja.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can you please tell me it required any module\lib files to write python script

Re: [android-developers] Re: Whats the key difference between Monkey Runner and Monkey tool?

2011-02-01 Thread Bharathi raja
Hi, Can you please tell me it required any module\lib files to write python script to do keystrokes and touch event. if so, from where i will get those module files On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:45 PM, A. Elk lancaster.dambust...@gmail.comwrote: You might use Monkey to test that your app handles

[android-developers] Re: Whats the key difference between Monkey Runner and Monkey tool?

2011-01-31 Thread raki
Hi Alk, Thanks a lot for the reply. I had a look at Robotium. It seems it will solve my purpose. But I am still not clear on whats the difference between Monkey ad Monkey runner. Can u please give a simple scenario explaining thier main purpose and difference between each other? I would be

[android-developers] Re: Whats the key difference between Monkey Runner and Monkey tool?

2011-01-31 Thread A. Elk
You might use Monkey to test that your app handles only certain keystrokes, handles only keystrokes sent in a certain order, and doesn't crash if it gets anything else. For touch events, you could use it to test that random touches or gestures don't do something unexpected in your application. As

[android-developers] Re: Whats the key difference between Monkey Runner and Monkey tool?

2011-01-30 Thread A. Elk
I don't think that Monkey will give you the type of UI testing you want. It's mostly used to generate input while you test other things. MonkeyRunner can do functional testing, but a better use for it is to run suites of system tests and then collect the results. Remember, too, that MonkeyRunner