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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Monkey
Message-ID: <773@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Oct 89 12:02:06 GMT
References: <35975@apple.Apple.COM> <1083@diemen.cc.utas.oz> <36000@apple.Apple.COM> <2@microsoft.UUCP> <4970@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <4970@internal.Apple.COM> wrs@apple.com (Walter Smith) writes:
 >Monkey is a real DA that has been around practically forever.

 >I can personally attest that in a user-interface-intensive program 
 >Monkey finds bugs like nothing else I know, precisely because of its 
 >randomness.  As IM says, it just spits random keys and mouse clicks into 
 >the app and waits for it to crash, so it gets into situations that no sane 
 >human, tester or otherwise, would ever try--it just wouldn't occur to them.

Sounds good (but dangerous!).  Where can I get it?

--
Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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