FlexMonkeyTM 1.0 GA Now Available From Gorilla Logic | Press Release
Open-Source Functional Testing Tool for Adobe Flex Applications – New and Improved!
Broomfield, CO – March 3rd, 2010 – Gorilla Logic, an enterprise IT consulting services firm known for its top consulting talent, today announced the availability of FlexMonkeyTM 1.0 GA. With a rapidly growing user base that recently surpassed 5,000 registered users, FlexMonkey is a de facto standard for automated functional testing of Flex applications. After eight months of maturing in a beta status, FlexMonkey is now available for production use by developers and quality assurance professionals everywhere.
“FlexMonkey has been invaluable for us in testing Adobe Air applications. It has found bugs and regressions on several occasions, preventing them from ever reaching customers. And…I had everything I needed to add FlexMonkey tests into our continuous integration environment,” said Michael Portuesi, Principal Engineer, Zoodles.com.
FlexMonkey is an open source testing tool providing record/playback functional testing of
Adobe Flex applications. FlexMonkey 1.0 GA delivers the features and improvements most
requested by the FlexMonkey user community including:
- “Wait For” handling – removes reliance on the PauseCommand by defining conditions that pause a script until true
- Fuzzy Bitmap Compare – the Verify command for bitmap images now allows for user controlled tolerances in color comparisons
- Simplified Setup – new easier process for configuring FlexMonkey testing of an application
- Compatibility – out of the box compatibility with multiple Flex SDKs (3.3, 3.4.1 and
3.5) - Code Compiling – easier customization and compilation of FlexMonkey source
“FlexMonkey keeps me from becoming exactly that – a monkey chained to a desk manually testing our software,” said Max Cameron, Co-Founder, Big Bang Technology, Inc. “Simply put, FlexMonkey kicks ass. It softens the enormous overhead of functional testing, and more importantly, it let’s my engineers get some sleep at night.”
FlexMonkey is well-suited for use by both developers and QA testers. It provides for regression and functional testing, and can be run from popular build systems and continuous integration environments, like CruiseControl.
“FlexMonkey 1.0 GA marks a major milestone for the FlexMonkey open source project and the Flex community who have come to rely on it. We encourage all existing users to upgrade to this new version which paves the way for our upcoming FlexMonkey releases for Flex 4, as well as our FlexMonkey/Selenium bridge,” said Stu Stern, CEO, Gorilla Logic.
FlexMonkey 1.0 GA is available today at www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey. Gorilla Logic also offers complete FlexMonkey training and testing services. Customers interested in early access to FlexMonkey for the Flex 4 SDK and the FlexMonkey/Selenium bridge should contact Gorilla Logic at www.gorillalogic.com/who-we-are/contact.
About Gorilla Logic
Gorilla Logic is an enterprise application development services and consulting firm known industry-wide for providing “gorilla” consultants that can dramatically improve development team productivity. Gorilla Logic has long demonstrated their industry-leading expertise in enterprise Java / JEE development, Adobe Flex / RIA development, and mobile device application development, including the iPhone. Gorilla Logic has been engaged to ensure the success of their most mission critical projects by Fortune 500 companies as well as small and mediums-zed businesses and startups in industries ranging from financial services to entertainment to aerospace and the government sector.
Gorilla Logic also develops open source tools for Java, Flex, and iPhone developers.
FoneMonkey (www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey)
FlexMonkey (www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey)
MonkeyWrench (www.gorillalogic.com/monkeywrench)
OpenGXE (www.gorillalogic.com/opengxe)
For more information about Gorilla Logic, please visit www.gorillalogic.com or email info@gorillalogic.com.
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