Open Source FlexMonkey Testing Tool

The open source FlexMonkey is the most widely used tool for testing Adobe Air and Flex applications. It has become the de facto standard in the market.  It is good to see an open source tool stake claim to this standard.

FlexMonkey is just one of the tools in the testing suite which Gorilla Logic brings to market as open source.  Along with FlexMonkey they have recently released version 5 of FoneMonkey which provides similar testing tools for iPhone and iPad development.

FlexMonkey 5 has a long list of major improvements over previous versions. Among them are:

• A new console interface
• A new test execution model based on FlexUnit 4
• New SetProperty, StoreValue, and CallFunction commands providing increased power and expressiveness without modifying Actionscript
• A new test-code generation model, friendlier to customization of generated code
• Plus hundreds of other changes driven by real-world feedback from the FlexMonkey community and Gorilla Logic’s customers