You can check out Stu Stern discussing FlexMonkey on a recent episode of the Speak Rich podcast from RIA Revolution. Thanks to Shashank Tiwari for interviewing Stu and covering Gorilla Logic’s favorite testing tool, FlexMonkey. Enjoy the podcast!
Marcin Zreda provided a review on FlexMonkey version 0.8 in a recent blog entry. He hit on some the key items that set FlexMonkey apart from other Flex testing tools. A main benefit is that it generates ActionScript code. Thus, there is nothing new for Flex developers to learn, such as the Ruby programming language with other testing tools.
FlexMonkey generates test scripts in Action Script. It gives us great opportunities to continue work by the test developers, and indeed very easy to integrate with the Continuous Integration tools because the test scripts are the FlexUnit format.
His summary concluded that FlexMonkey is a serious tool in the Flex testing space:
Looking at the whole family of automated GUI testing tools, FlexMonkey certainly deserves a honorable mention – is a complete tool, although version 0.8. Using Continuous Integration and the code repository can quickly combine to create solution very similar to RIATest or other profesional and expensive software.
You can read the full review here: http://www.testandtry.com/2009/04/07/flexmonkey-flex-test-automation-tool-review.
FlexMonkey is built and open sourced by Gorilla Logic, Inc.
