Open-Source Tool Provides Automated Record and Playback Testing for iPhone Apps
BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Gorilla Logic, an enterprise IT consulting services firm known for providing top talent, today announced the first public release of FoneMonkey(TM), an open-source functional testing tool for iPhone apps.
FoneMonkey is the world’s first iPhone functional testing tool, open source or otherwise, and provides iPhone app developers and testers with the ability to record, edit, and playback user interface tests and fully automate iPhone app testing. Such agile development See agile software development. process since iterative software development requires comprehensive Adobe Flex Adobe Flex is a software development kit and an IDE for a group of technologies initially released in March of 2004 by Macromedia to support the development and deployment of cross platform, rich Internet applications based on their proprietary Macromedia Flash platform. applications, FoneMonkey has been designed to be used as a standalone, interactive recording and playback tool, but also provides the option to easily extend scripts with native programming code, and to run scripts from within build scripts or from continuous integration environments. Additionally, FoneMonkey directly supports integration with test frameworks such as OCUnit and the Google Toolkit for Mac.
“With the release of FoneMonkey, iPhone developers finally have the ability to easily automate comprehensive tests suites for the iPhone. The absence of automated testing has been a major challenge for enterprises who need to create bug-free iPhone apps for their customers,” said Stu Stern, Gorilla Logic consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm – a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
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business firm, firm, house – the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; “he worked for a 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 by Fortune 500 companies in industries ranging from