Complete Software Engineering: Monkey testing

Monkey testing

January 06, 2005 at 07:04 AM
by rgrzywinski | 12 Comments

I have read a number of articles in the past few days on what is commonly called "monkey testing". The name comes from the old saying: "A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters will eventually type out the entire works of Shakespeare."

Using Monkey Test Tools: How to find bugs cost-effectively through random testing by Noel Nyman
Things That Find Bugs in the Night by Harry Robinson (don't forget to check out his "Further Reading" section)
A Case Study of Coverage-Checked Random Data Structure Testing by James H. Andrews

I felt compelled to do a little research into the origins of the monkey saying and found the Infinite monkey theorem. From this I found the The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator which appears to be a better use for my spare CPU cycles than checking for extraterrestrial intelligence (grin).

Comments

Comment by uma at January 11, 2005 11:08 PM

sir ,
what is monkey testing.plz explain with simple examples.

uma

Comment by rgrzywinski at January 12, 2005 06:21 AM

Uma, since most of what I would say has already been said in:

http://www.softtest.org/sigs/material/nnyman2.htm
(Noel Nyman's "Using Monkey Test Tools")

why don't you let me know what you don't understand from there and I will be more than happy to try to help you throught it.

Take care!

Comment by madhavi at February 22, 2005 03:31 AM

Sir, What is Extreme Programming?

Comment by rgrzywinski at February 23, 2005 07:36 AM

Madhavi,

http://www.google.com/search?q=extreme+programming

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgramming

The internet is a wealth of information. You simply have to have the skills and techniques to know how to find the information that you need.

If you have any specific questions about extreme programming (XP) that aren't covered in the above links post them here and I will be more than happy to help.

Comment by Amit at February 27, 2005 11:23 PM

I think monkey testing is nothing but the testing for which we do not need any test case design.It is a sort of adhoc testing.

Comment by madan at March 2, 2005 04:02 AM

Sir,
I want to know about TESTBED and TESTHARNESS.
Regards,
madan

Comment by Suresh at March 16, 2005 01:42 AM

what is Agile Development?

Comment by Kavita at April 15, 2005 06:19 AM

What is Monkey Testing and where is it used?

What is Smoke Testing and it's need???

What Are Low Severity and High Priority Bug??? With examples

Comment by raju singh at April 18, 2005 07:40 AM

could u explain me the various current tools using in software testing?

Comment by sunil at May 20, 2005 02:08 AM

what is unit testing &system testing

Comment by raghav at June 24, 2005 03:39 AM

hello sir
Give me the full detalis of testing tools so that i can prepare my own because am finacially weak please consider this comment and send me detals about TESTING TOOLS.

Comment by rgrzywinski at July 11, 2005 07:58 AM

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