The newest version of MonkeyTalk -- Gorilla Logic's free and open source functional testing tool for native and web-based mobile apps -- is available now!

MonkeyTalk Beta 4 adds support for mobile webapp testing via our new "MTBrowser" apps for iOS and Android. MTBrowsers simulate the mobile Safari and Android browsers and let you run MonkeyTalk scripts against mobile web applications.

This morning we pushed out the bits for MonkeyTalk Beta 3, the latest edition of our free and open source functional testing tool for iOS and Android. In addition to the proverbial "numerous bug fixes and stability improvements",  Beta 3 adds playback support for embedded webviews, ie, if you have a "hybrid" application containing native components as well as embedded html browser views, you can now script the interaction with the html seamlessly along with the native portions of the app.

We have mapped html elements to MonkeyTalk logical component types, so there is no need to distinguish within a script between what is native and what is html. For example, the command for tapping on a button looks the same regardless of whether you're scripting native Android, iOS, or html.

Button OK Tap

The above command will work with html buttons created with a button tag, as well as those created with an input tag. Other html elements are similarly mapped. At runtime, MonkeyTalk searches all displayed native and html components until it finds a displayed native or html button labeled OK.

The only big difference at present between native component and html webview handling in MonkeyTalk is that we do not yet support recording html element interactions, so these need to be composed manually without recording. MonkeyTalk of course makes it very easy to whip out a script from scratch, so even without the ability to record, this is a very powerful new feature. All other MonkeyTalk features including parameterization and data-driving are fully supported for html element scripting.

You can download MonkeyTalk Beta 3 from http://www.gorillalogic.com/monkeytalk/download.

Happy testing!

We've finally released the MonkeyTalk source code to our public subversion repo. See http://www.gorillalogic.com/testing-tools/monkeytalk/source-code. for more info. You do need a (completely free) Gorilla Logic id/password to access.

Code contributions are extremely welcome! Anybody interested in helping out with MonkeyTalk engineering should please contact us!

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Download it here!

Gorilla Logic will have a booth at AnDevCon and I'll be presenting a session on MonkeyTalk. Use the discount code STERN and save $200 on your AnDevCon registration!

Hope to see you in San Francisco!

The MonkeyTalk Platform consists of the following components:

MonkeyTalk Agents for iOS and Android - Small, native libraries that can be linked into any Android or iOS application to enable MonkeyTalk recording and playback. No source code changes or jailbreaking required.

Today's release is officially beta, but is quite complete and stable so please give it a spin and let us know what you think. Like all of our tools, MonkeyTalk is completely free and open source!

You can download it here.

Nice article on IBM developerWorks about using FlexMonkium to add Flex recording/playback to Rational Functional Tester: http://ibm.co/wp65bq.