August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
220 pages
4h 50m
English
The Android Application Exerciser Monkey is a handy command line, application stress tester. It works by performing (or injecting) a stream of random input actions, such as clicking, typing, and swiping. It is akin to handing your app to a toddler and seeing if they can break it. All developers understand that the user can, and will, attempt to do utterly ridiculous and unpredictable things with their app, and short of sitting there trying to replicate every possible combination of gestures, the exerciser Monkey is as close as we can get to predict the unpredictable.
The Monkey is very simple to run: simply open the command prompt in your sdk/platform-tools directory and enter the following command:
adb shell Monkey -p com.your.package ...
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