Monkey Testing

Megha Goyal

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What is Monkey testing?

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Satyapriya Nayak14y ago
Monkey Testing:- Testing a system or an Application on the fly, i.e just few tests here and there to ensure the system or an application does not crash out.

Input are generated from probability distributions that reflect actual expected usage statistics -- e.g., from user profiles. There are different levels of IQ in smart monkey testing. In the simplest, each input is considered independent of the other inputs. That is, a given test requires an input vector with five components. In low IQ testing, these would be generated independently. In high IQ monkey testing, the correlation (e.g., the covariance) between these input distribution is taken into account. In all branches of smart monkey testing, the input is considered as a single event.

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Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman14y ago
Monkey testing is random testing performed by automated testing tools (after the latter are developed by humans).
These automated testing tools are considered "monkeys", if they work at random.
We call them "monkeys" because it is widely believed that if we allow six monkeys to pound on six typewriters at random,
for a million years, they will recreate all the works of Isaac Asimov.

There are "smart monkeys" and "dumb monkeys".
"Smart monkeys" are valuable for load and stress testing;
they will find a significant number of bugs, but are also very expensive to develop.
"Dumb monkeys", on the other hand, are inexpensive to develop, are able to do some basic testing,
but they will find few bugs.
However, the bugs "dumb monkeys" do find will be hangs and crashes,
i.e. the bugs you least want to have in your software product.
"Monkey testing" can be valuable, but they should not be your only testing.

Monkey Testing refers  broadly to any form of automated testing done randomly and without any "typical user" bias. Calling such tools monkeys derives from variations of this popular aphorism:
               Six monkeys pounding on six typewriters at random
              for a million years will recreate all the works of Isaac Asimov.
The use of monkey testing is to simulate how your customers will use your software in real time.

taken from:http://www.robdavispe.com/free2/software-qa-testing-test-tester-2192.html

Also check the below wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_test
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