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Article #7405Monkey (was Re: Word 4.0 fractional widths)
From: Walter Smith
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 05:33
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 05:33
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Monkey is a real DA that has been around practically forever. The very first low-memory global (0x100) is called MonkeyLives; it is a flag to let apps know that Monkey is running so they can refuse to do destructive things like replacing the Finder with a MacPaint document (which is the sort of thing Monkey tries to do surprisingly often). I can personally attest that in a user-interface-intensive program Monkey finds bugs like nothing else I know, precisely because of its randomness. As IM says, it just spits random keys and mouse clicks into the app and waits for it to crash, so it gets into situations that no sane human, tester or otherwise, would ever try--it just wouldn't occur to them. - Walt -- Walter Smith wrs@apple.com, apple!wrs Apple Computer, Inc. (408) 974-5892 My corporation disavows any knowledge of my activities on the network.
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