Learning Android Application Testing

Running monkey

You might know about the infinite monkey theorem. This theorem states that a monkey that hits keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. The Android version of this theorem states that a monkey that produces random touches on a device could crash your application in, well, much less than an infinite amount of time.

With this, Android features a monkey application (http://goo.gl/LSWg85) that will generate the random events instead of a real monkey.

The simplest way to run monkey against our application to generate random events is:

$ adb -e shell monkey -p com.blundell.tut -v -v 1000

You will be receiving this output: