Skip to Content
Learning Android Application Testing
book

Learning Android Application Testing

by Paul Blundell
March 2015
Beginner to intermediate
274 pages
6h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learning Android Application Testing

Test scripting with monkeyrunner

The possibilities of monkey are fairly limited, and the lack of flow control restricts its use to very simple cases.To circumvent these limitations, a new project was created, which was named monkeyrunner. Notwithstanding this, the name is almost the same and leads to a huge amount of confusion because they are not related in any way.

Monkeyrunner, which is already included in the latest versions of the Android SDK, is a tool that provides an API for the purpose of writing scripts that externally control an Android device or emulator.

Monkeyrunner is built on top of Jython (http://jython.org/), a version of the Python programming language (http://python.org/), which is designed to run on the Java platform.

According ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Debugging and Testing Android Applications

Debugging and Testing Android Applications

Christopher Stanley
Android Best Practices

Android Best Practices

Godfrey Nolan, Onur Cinar, David Truxall

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781784395339