New knowledge: monkey improved app crawler

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Native Monkey

As we all know Monkey yes Android Tools for pressure stability test on the platform , adopt Monkey It can simulate the user touching the screen 、 slide 、 Pseudo-random user events such as keys are used to stress test the program on the device . And the original Android Monkey There are some drawbacks ：

• Events are too random , The effectiveness of the test is greatly reduced
  because Monkey Mainly send some random events to test , The event operation during the test is not controlled , Most operations are invalid （ For example, click on a blank area 、 Slide on a page that cannot be slid, and so on ）.

• Yes App Poor control coverage within the page
  It is also because of the randomness , There is no guarantee App All controls of the page can be effectively covered .

• There is a probability of jumping out of the test
  Click on the notification bar or status bar , Will jump to other pages , This interrupts the current App Test of .

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Google App crawler

Google Officially launched App Traversal tool , comparison Monkey Based on pseudo-random events ,App Crawler Is a control based traversal , Can better traverse App The function of .

Official website ：

https://developer.android.google.cn/training/testing/crawler

Use steps ：

1

install JDK And Android SDK

JDK And SDK Please refer to the following article for installation of ：

Window Under the system Java Environment building

The tester must collect the series Android SDK

2

download App Crawler And extract the

3

Execute the following command to start the test ：

java -jar crawl_launcher.jar --apk-file--app-package-name--android-sdk

App Crawler After running, it will generate crawl_output Catalog , There are screenshots and log information of each step of traversal .

Related command parameters ：

Parameters	describe
--android-sdk	Appoint Android SDK The path of , This is a required tag .
--apk-file	Specify the application APK The path of , The application grab tool will then install and grab it , This is a required tag （ If not specified --app-package-name）.
--app-package-name	Specify the package name of the application . When your app is already installed on the device and does not need to be reinstalled , Use this option . This is a required tag （ If not specified --apk-file）.
--key-store	Specify the tools to use for your application and crawling APK Path to the signed keystore . When your application needs a specific signature to run properly , Use this option .
--key-store-password	Specify you as --key-store Option to provide the password for the keystore . This is a required tag （ If you have specified  --key-store）.
--timeout-sec	Specifies the timeout for fetching （ In seconds ）. If not specified , Grab will be in 60 Seconds after stop .

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Measured results

Native Monkey：

Google App Crawler：

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