Are monkey testing & gorilla testing same? If not, then
what is the difference between these two?
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Answer / vidya
No Monkey Testing and Gorilla Testing are not same.
Monkey Testing : Testing a system or an Application on the
fly, i.e just few tests here and there to ensure the system
or an application does not crash out
Gorilla Testing : Testing one particular module,
functionality heavily
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Answer / satish
Monkey (light weight jumps easily) testing resembles the
behavior of a monkey on a tree....it jumps from one branch
to another with out any sequence/order....in the same way
monkey testing is the process of testing the functions of a
system with out any sequence or order... a tester will test
one function in module A and jump to another function in
another Module G and come back to another function in module C..
It is also called Random testing...it factories to test the
quality of group of items they will pick some items randomly
from a group of items and test the quality and analyze the
results.. this will be done by higher people in the
Test/Quality Center...
Gorilla (heavy weight can't move so easily) Testing on the
other hand is testing a function or module heavily....for
example testing a email functionality by click on "send
email" button...or creating an order by click on "check out"
button... continuously for more times...(with out stopping
after the first click..) in the first case it will send many
emails if it is delivering for each click event...same away
it may try to create multiple orders if it is processing
order for each click event...and some times may go in to
loop and application will hang after consuming more
resources...generally this will happen if there is a problem
in the hardware (key board)...if the key board is too old
some times the keys may struck suddenly leads to generation
of multiple events....
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Answer / neelima
hi,monkey testing means testing the main modules by
skipping the sub modules and gorilla testing means testing
one particular module in detail
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Answer / vipul
monkey testing means testing of an application, with no
test case document, and design .It is just to check what
could be the result ,if applicaton is used in improper way.
where as gorilla testing is the testing done on aplication,
to check if the user thinks to break the application, with
improper combination of keys,or pressing the key whose
option is not available in application.
so we can say in monkey testing ,no idea of
application to the user eg-1 year baby is playing with
keys,when application is running. Whereas gorilla testing,
although the user know the the application functionality,
but he wants to do more than that..
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Monkey Testing and Gorilla testing are not same.
Monkey testing - an unflattering term used to describe inexperienced people "banging" on a terminal. Often used to describe testing by staff who have trouble finding their butt with both hands.
Gorilla testing - used to describe repetitive, boring manual testing that a tester has already done a hundred times and could do in their sleep. As in "a trained gorilla could execute these tests". Often a sign that testing needs to be automated.
In simple term it can be referred as following below,
Gorilla Testing - you have a real short window of time to test and X number of resources (typically experienced QA). You hit the app hard, with everyone focused on core functionality and critical paths a "typical" user would take through the app. Unfortunately, this is still all too common today.
Monkey Testing - mundane testing that you have to do when your company is too cheap to buy you an automation tool to do it for you. It's a huge waste of senior tester's time, but usually no other resources are available.
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Answer / sujithra
thanks Mr.Lakshmanaraj bg,
you are given a simple and correct answer.
Thank you.
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Answer / maxx
monkey will pass for smoke testing while gorilla will also
pass for exploratory testing. i think that is the difference.
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Answer / shruti
monkey testing: testing the application here and there i.e
random way of testing
gorilla testing: more detailed testing on particular
module/functionality
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