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by lelandfe 849 days ago
Given that all the comments I'm seeing are of the “‘makeFooReady’ makes foo ready” ilk, I wonder how these tools fare on incorrectly-named things. Would it pick up on ‘asyncRemoveFoo’ being neither async nor a function that removes foo?
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ben_w 849 days ago
Reminds me of something I learned of over a decade ago:

   isUserAMonkey

   Added in API level 8

   public static boolean isUserAMonkey ()

   Returns "true" if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.
- https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity...
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no_wizard 849 days ago
I wonder why this exists.

What is this code for. How would they even know its a monkey?!

I'm sure its a joke of sorts, or clever moniker if you want to be charitable, but unclear to me in any case

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r3trohack3r 849 days ago
A quick Kagi search revealed that this checks if the user is a simulated user in for stress tests:

https://developer.android.com/studio/test/other-testing-tool...

My guess is that the name shares its etymology with other Monkey references in tech, like Chaos Monkey. Where a being that has no understanding of the purpose of anything in the environment is given access to the environment and allowed to wreak havoc as a form of resilience testing.

This monkey appears to generate system events and user input events in a pseudo-random (deterministic) way to help with fuzzy-like testing of an app.

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mgkimsal 849 days ago
https://developer.android.com/studio/test/other-testing-tool...
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jlund-molfese 849 days ago
Auto-generated comments ("foo takes bar and returns baz") have been a thing in Java IDEs for a very long time...but most people just consider them to be clutter and don't use them.

A product that scans your repo and identifies mis-named functions would be compelling, though.

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