MonkeyRunner Reviews & Product Details

Ability to test devices and save screenshots to track progress in product development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Certainly not usable by those outside of R&D or those without programming knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike is that it lacks tight UI integration. Some of our testers also complained about not liking Jython in particular, but that is subjective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

3. It allows me to control the devices in a very easy way

4. Extensible by plugins, it allows you to unlock the whole potential of this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. It's not always the most reliable system.

2. I sometimes does not yield the expected results so sometimes I do not trust much but from 1 to 100% 80% reliable

3. no so much at this point i think the road so far is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

provision to write APIs for testing.

Exceptional capability to add plugins to it.

Multiple device control option is the best of all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not 100% reliable.

Lack proper documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extensible by plugins, it allows you to unlock the whole potential of this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

no so much at this point i think the road so far is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The facility to write a behavior test, with the option to use a language less verbose than JAVA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yet doesn't have a good documention about it, what difficulty to begginers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The monkeyrunner tool uses Jython and I am not a huge fan of this programming tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really flexible functional automated UI testing for Android. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Typical use involves tapping by coordinates and using the keys, which is increasingly not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.