Testing Tools For Android

There are number of tools which are used for testing android applications.  Monkey is one of them: 

Monkey:

Monkey is a Testing tool that we run on any device or on emulator.  It shoots an uneven multiple stream of cases into the device, which performs as a stress test on the application which we are testing.

Features Of Monkey:

Some features of Monkey are-

• Event types and frequencies
• Operational constraints
• Debugging options
• Basic configuration options 

How To Use Monkey- 

For using monkey tool,  go to command prompt and operate from this directory.

android ->sdk ->platform-tools

Connect your decive from system and run this command.

adb shell monkey -p your.package.name -v 500

This command is simplified as follows:

adb - adb stands for Android Debug Bridge. This tool is used to send commands from system to your Android phone 

shell - shell start the terminal on the device or emulator

Monkey - Monkey is the Android Testing Tool.

v - v stands for verbose mode

500- It is the number of events to be sent for testing.

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