Comments on: Why FlexMonkey is Game Changing for Flex Developers

By: jonr

jonr — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:14:55 +0000

FlexMonkey uses the Automation API provided by Adobe. I don’t think they have published a schedule for when this will be available for Flex 4 yet. Hopefully, they will have it ready to go before Flex 4 is out of beta and officially ready for production use. Once that is out there, you should see Flex 4 support added to FlexMonkey fairly quickly. It’s probably worth letting Adobe that the community see this as a priority (i.e. blog, tweet, files bugs, etc).

By: Stan Berka

Stan Berka — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:39:43 +0000

Yes, FlexMonkey fills a gap and it allows to nicely test Flex application UI, *BUT* only if it supports Flex 4. We’re starting a new project and we decided to go with the Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. Will we be able to use FlexMonkey for functional tests in a month or two? That is the question.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:22:40 +0000

Can FlexMonkey be used when SWF is hosted inside a web app? Seems like I have to open a SWF instead of a URL , like I can to debug via Flash builder). What happens if the SWF requires a logged in session and lives inside a page that is responsible for generating the tag. I’ve used FunFx in past to automate this process but because that project seems dead I’ve been looking for alternatives

By: Michael Labriola

Michael Labriola — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:34:13 +0000

I do strongly believe in unit testing. I also strongly believe that tools like FlexMonkey are crucial to the testing lifecycle and help legitimize serious application development on the Flash platform. It’s a great tool.