Android Application UI Testing (with monkey and
monkeyrunner)

This tool is a command line based tool
that can be primarily used to stress test your application UI. It is
the simplest tool to use. Here's how..

Running monkey as
an application UI stress tester (runs a random set of
commands on the application. useful to UI stress testing)

-
Open a command console.
- First direct your console to the
location of the adb (Android Debug Bridge) program in the android
sdk. Typically you can use the following command for this..

$cd
path_to_android_sdk/platform-tools/

path_to_android_sdk should
be the path to the sdk on your pc

- Now make sure you device
is connected with the application running on it or that the emulator
is running the application.

- To test on device issue the
following command in the console

$./adb -d shell monkey -p
package_name -v 1000

(replace -d with -e to test on the
emulator.
package_name is the name of the application package abnd
it usually begins with com.
-v specifies the number of UI events
to be generated, in this case we ask it to generate 1000 random
events)

Now you will see the monkey stress testing your
app.

If you get force close message while running monkey you
have just discovered a bug that needs fixing. You can run

./adb
logcat

in the console to generate the relevant logs.