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Supervised Monkey Tests with Espresso and UI Automator

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Application stability is a top application quality indicator. Poor stability leads to low user ratings in Android PlayStore, which in turn lowers the application’s overall rating and reduces the downloads. In order to keep applications stable, the Android platform provides a tool called monkeyrunner ( https://developer.android.com/studio/test/monkeyrunner ) to test the application from the stability side.

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Zelenchuk, D. (2019). Supervised Monkey Tests with Espresso and UI Automator. In: Android Espresso Revealed. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4315-2_13

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