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by r3trohack3r
847 days ago
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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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