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Mastering Android Application Development

You're reading from   Mastering Android Application Development Learn how to do more with the Android SDK with this advanced Android Application guide which shows you how to make even better Android apps that users will love

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785884221
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Testing from a UI perspective


The testing that we will do now is similar to the kind of tests that a person using the app could do. In fact, in companies that have QA (Quality Assurance), people use these tools as a complement to manual testing.

UI tests can be automated as well, but they differ from unit and integration tests; these are actions performed on the screen, from clicking on a button to completing a registration process with recorded events.

We will start with stress testing using The Monkey.

Launching The Monkey

The Monkey is a program that can be launched from the command line with ADB. It generates random events in our device or emulator, and using a seed, we can reproduce the same random events. To clarify, let's consider an example with numbers. Imagine that I execute Monkey and it produces random numbers from 1 to 10; if I launched it again, I would get different numbers. When I execute The Monkey with a seed (this seed is a number), I get a set of different numbers from 1...

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