Recently I was interviewed by Clever Tester about FoneMonkey. You can check it out here.

We are very excited today to announce the availability of FlexMonkium, a plugin that adds FlexMonkey recording and playback to Selenium, the popular, open source, web testing framework.

FlexMonkium provides for the testing of hybrid applications consisting of both Flex and HTML components by seamlessly interleaving the recording and playback of Flex and HTML interactions. Recorded tests can be output as JUnit-based scripts that can be extended with Java-based testing logic, and that can be run from build scripts and continuous integration processes.

You can download FlexMonkium from http://www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkium.

I was recently interviewed by DZone about FlexMonkey 4 and FlexMonkium. You can check it out here.

I was recently interviewed by Yakov Fain, editor of Flex Developer's Journal. You can check it out here.

FlexMonkium, the Selenium Plugin that adds FlexMonkey recording and playback to Selenium-IDE and Selenium-RC, is undergoing final testing and packaging in preparation for its forthcoming release.

In this pair of videos smuggled from Gorilla Logic labs, deep beneath the surface of the Earth, we see FlexMonkium interleaving Flex with HTML recording and playback, and generated JUnit test scripts being run with Selenium-RC.

We just posted the new installer and accessories zip to FlexMonkey Project Home. Getting FlexMonkey to work with Flex 4 proved to be a bit more work than we'd anticipated but ultimately we got everything working and the result is a solid release that includes support for all Spark components.

Happily, we now return our attention back to FlexMonkium, our FlexMonkey/Selenium bridge, which is rapidly nearing it's first public release!

We've just completed testing and anticipate releasing FlexMonkey for Flex 4 before the end of April!

This upcoming release, which we think we're going to call "FlexMonkey 4", works perfectly with Flex 4 and handles all of the new Spark components.

Thanks to the continuing feedback from our rapidly growing community of FoneMonkey users, we've been able to identify and fix several issues and bring you FoneMonkey 0.7.2, available now at FoneMonkey Project Home.

This release fixes various bugs including problems with keyboard and scroll recording.

Thanks to the intrepid souls who have taken the plunge into the first ever public release of FoneMonkey, we got some great feedback from 0.7 users and have just posted a new release, 0.7.1, with several important bug fixes and feature enhancements, notably:

Enhancements:

* WaitFor command - You can cause script execution to wait for views to be created or property values to be set
* "Popup Dialog" handling - You can now script UIAlertViews and UIAlertSheets.
* Better control event handling for UITextFields.

Bug fixes:

* OCUnit runner crash
* UINavigationBar rightItem playback


FoneMonkey 0.7.1 can be downloaded from FoneMonkey Project Home. We can understand if you considered 0.7 to be too early a release to try, but surely you'll feel differently about 0.7.1, which includes not one, but two, decimal points.

In all honesty, FoneMonkey, while not yet bug free, is quite stable and will definitely make your life better, at least in terms of iPhone testing.

In our previous video, we saw recording and playback of Flex interactions interleaved with browser interactions within a single Selenium script. Today's video shows how we can execute FlexMonkey Verify commands as assertions or waitFor predicates within a Selenium script.

The video shows a simply script being played back at slow speed. When we then try to play the same script back at fast speed, it fails because the script navigates to the page containing a Flex app, but then attempts to interact with it before the app has finished loading.

What we would like to do is have a way to tell Selenium to wait for some condition that signals the app has finished loading. One way to do this is to have Selenium wait for the appearance of a component within the application's window. We interactively create a FlexMonkey Verify command that tests whether the name field has a blank value. Notice that when we create this command, it is also "recorded" by the Selenium IDE as an assertion, assertFlexVerify.

This assertion will fail if it is executed before the swf has finished loading. However, we can ask Selenium to wait for the condition to become true by changing the assertFlexVerify command to be a waitForFlexVerify instead. Now, when we run the script, it waits for the swf to load before continuing, and then successfullly plays the rest of the script at high speed. We can of course use a similar technique to have a Selenium script wait for other Flex application events, such as data being returned from a query to be displayed in a table.



As you can see, we have all the major mechanisms necessary to very clean integration of FlexMonkey and Selenium. There is some trivial syntactic sugar we will likely sprinkle on what the video shows here, and we've still got some code clean up to do before we'll be ready to release, but we believe all the hard problems have been solved so it won't be much longer before FlexMonkium, the FlexMonkey Plug-In for Selenium, is publicly available!