Comments on: Run FlexMonkey Tests from ANT

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:39:28 +0000

@KC I have actually have seen that issue for the same exact reason. We needed to move pages for our app. So what I did was setup a testing project per swf so that I could test each individually. Does that make sense? I know it takes extra effort, but it’s what must be done.

By: KC

KC — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:25:27 +0000

Hi,

I met an issue while using ant run our application.
At beginning it runs ok, when tests go to next swf (click step redirect page to next swf ), the ant script quit, and junit report has 0 test results.(actually 2 cases has been run.) Do you meet same issue? the case is we launch main.jsp, it has first swf included, when test go and call next swf, the issue happens, thanks for advice.

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:44:07 +0000

Nope, none of that is necessary to run the monkey link. The socket server is made so that the external app can talk to your application. If you are trying for immediate resolution I’d say to hit up the FlexMonkey support system. Anything I do will still be a ways out between the day job and side work.

By: sarala

sarala — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:24:11 +0000

thanks for your reply,
Just to make it easy for you to debug the error, i want to tell few things about my project. I am building an AIR application which has very simple button controls and label and nothing complicated. Is it necessary that we have to have monkeyTest launcher ( i.e MonkeyTestLauncher (html/swf), AC_OETags, ) as i am not using any HTML component. is this what is the reason for the opened srever socket problem? This info might help for you to understand my problem better.

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:22:18 +0000

No, those are the correct swcs. Let me play with it and see if I can come up with a better explaination.

By: sarala

sarala — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:16:06 +0000

thanks for your reply,
but i did not make out whats compiling in the monkey link swcs. While establishing connection with the flex monkey i added the following swcs in the project libs folder , AirMonkeyLibrary.swc, automation_monkey.swc, Easy2BuildMonkeyLink.swc, FlexAutomationLibrary.swc, fluint.swc, MonkeyFlexUnitLibrary.swc.. with these been included along with monkey-ant-task.jar in my library i could establish the connection to flex monkey. I also generated the tests and the module required to automate testing is also ready.
Am i missing anything till here? Please let me know jonanthan

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:42:18 +0000

When you compiled your application, did you make sure to compile in the monkey link swcs? This is what allows the two to talk. I’ll work up a monkeylink specific blog post shortly, sadly they do take some time

By: sarala

sarala — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:52:35 +0000

hi all,
as per jonathan’s words, i have used the monkeylink option , compiled my application with the required swcs and also the connection is established. Now, while automating, my module complies fine and when i run my app from ANT i see the following

D:\>ant -buildfile d:/projects/antproject/build.xml run_functional_test
Buildfile: d:\projects\antproject\build.xml

init:
[delete] Deleting directory d:\projects\antproject\bin-debug
[mkdir] Created dir: d:\projects\antproject\bin-debug

compile_test_module:
[java] Loading configuration file D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdk
s\3.5\frameworks\air-config.xml
[java] D:\projects\antproject\bin-debug\monkeyTester.swf (1383886 bytes)

compile_functional_test:
[java] Loading configuration file D:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdk
s\3.5\frameworks\air-config.xml
[java] D:\projects\antproject\bin-debug\antproject.swf (1947791 bytes)
[copy] Copying 1 file to d:\projects\antproject\bin-debug

run_functional_test:
[monkey-test-launcher] Invoking runner with command: rundll32 url.dll,FileProtoc
olHandler d:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.5\bin\adl.exe .\bin-debug
\antproject-app.xml
[monkey-test-launcher] Opened server socket

and nothing happens after this. I am eager to know what it means and additional information about the launcher and tester would be appreciated

By: Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Sabyasachi Mukherjee — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:34:27 +0000

Thanks for your inputs…

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:57:48 +0000

When you are using the FlexMonkey application to set up your testing, just select in the properties “MonkeyLink”. To get this to work you will need to compile the application with the automation swcs and the flexmonkey automation swcs. Then the MonkeyLink can be established.

After that, to automate it you just need to build a module that runs your automated tests and can run from the flexmonkey jar. Then you can tie it into ant just the way you did before.

I know this seems like a lot of steps but you can easily take care of this in just a few hours.

At some point I should stop and write out instructions as to how to do all of this.