Gorilla Logic Makes FlexMonkey 5 Available for Adobe Flex and AIR

Gorilla Logic, a provider of enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and Rich Internet Applications (RIA), has announced the availability of FlexMonkey 5, an open source automated testing tool for Adobe Flex and AIR.

FlexMonkey 5 represents a major re-write of the FlexMonkey core open source test tool, according to company officials.

Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic, noted that functional user experience testing is more critical than ever with the explosion of new consumer computing and devices.

This latest version offers the community the next generation of FlexMonkey, making it more extensible and supportable, Stern said, adding that, “it showcases our passion for quality, our technical expertise, and our connection to the tools and culture of Agile (News - Alert) delivery.”

With FlexMonkey, developers and testers of RIA can record, playback and verify real-world user interactions. Moreover, when required, the test automation tool can also generate ActionScript test scripts that teams can use within a continuous integration environment.

This newest version of FlexMonkey 5 comes with a console interface; a test execution model based on FlexUnit 4; SetProperty, StoreValue, and CallFunction commands that provide increased power; and expressiveness without modifying ActionScript.

Additional new enhancements include a new test-code generation model, friendlier to customization of generated code; and also hundreds of other changes driven by real-world feedback from the FlexMonkey community and Gorilla Logic's customers.

Stern said that the new features translate into some powerful benefits to the FLEX open source functional testing community. “User experience testing for the Adobe (News - Alert) Flex/AIR platform now is more powerful, easier to use, faster, and more reliable -- plus, it is free because it is open source.”

For FlexMonkey customers that use Agile methods and have complex testing needs, FlexMonkey 5 offers new improvements in test extensions and Continuous Integration (CI) environments, Stern said.

Earlier in April, the company released FoneMonkey 5 for iPhone (News - Alert) and iPad apps.

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