MonkeyRunner Reviews

.Ability to test devices and save screenshots to track progress in product development

Certainly not usable by those outside of R&D or those without programming knowledge

Testing new products for functionality

I love how lazy and easy a task can be if i program a certain way and monkey runner will help me with it automatically.

Nothing wrong with the program. Its good. Maybe it takes a little while to learn it. I did have to watch some youtube videos first. But then once you know its way easy.

Try it. If you are programming with Android code then this is the program for you!

Programming and helps with Android code. It connects to more then one device.

Android is a heavily fragmented ecosystems with hundreds of devices out in the wild. As application developers, we constantly worry about making the "right choice". Thankfully, automated testing tools like Monkey Runner make things a little easier. For me, the best features are:

(1) Screenshots at designated points, instead of simply marking a test as pass/fail

(2) Very configurable test suite (ability to send highly stressful random input commands)

(3) Jython: a Python implementation in Java

1. Really flexible functional automated UI testing for Android.

2. You can physically attach all devices or start up all the emulators (or both) at once, connect to each in turn programmatically

Multiple control-the monkeyrunner API can apply one or more test suites across multiple devices or emulators. You can physically attach all devices or start up all the emulators (or both) at once, connect to each in turn programmatically, and then run one or more tests.

The monkeyrunner tool uses Jython and I am not a huge fan of this programming tool.

Give it a try and it may work better than your current testing tools.

Test applications and devices at the functional/framework level and for running unit test suites.

provision to write APIs for testing.

Exceptional capability to add plugins to it.

Multiple device control option is the best of all.

The facility to write a behavior test, with the option to use a language less verbose than JAVA.

Yet doesn't have a good documention about it, what difficulty to begginers.

This tool is very good to take screenshots of an application for divulgation purposes, for example. And another good feauture is the possibilitie of behavior test, more than only unit tests that's are provide by JAVA standard.

With monkeyrunner, it is easy to snapshot screen for various languages. Giving easy preview for localization team to verify whether their translation need adjustment or not. It's also easy to verify if particular features is working as expected or not. The monkeyrunner also equipped with plugin architecture so that we can extends its capability even further.

There's not much that I can dislike from monkeyrunner. This is particularly true, given that my usecase in this product is rather limited. One thing that I might find problem is when people need to test interaction within the app, it's quite hard to snapshot that interaction given the output of monkeyrunner is just an image. For interaction, we will need tools that can record video for verification.

with monkeyrunner, we cut significant time in multiple language translation by autogenerating translated screens for translators to review, without waiting the actual APK. They just have to compare screen by screen.

The monkeyrunner tool provides an API for writing programs that control an Android device or emulator from outside of Android code.

It's not always the most reliable system.