Smart Monkey Testing vs Dumb Monkey Testing
Below are the differences between Smart monkey testing and Dumb monkey testing:
Parameters | Smart Monkey Testing | Dumb Monkey Testing |
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Knowledge about application | The tester has a brief idea about the application. | Tester has no knowledge of the application. |
Understanding system capability | The tester knows their and the system’s capability. | The tester is not aware of either their or the system’s capability. |
Bug detection | The focus here is to break and system and report the bugs if they are found. | Dumb Monkey Test can find fewer bugs than smart monkeys, but can also find important bugs that are hard to catch by smart monkey tests. |
The idea about workflow of the application | In smart monkey testing, the tester has an idea about the workflow of the application. The tester knows its own location, where it can go, and where it has been. | In dumb monkey testing, the tester does not have an idea about the workflow of the application. Testers don’t know if their input or behavior is valid or invalid. |
Monkey Software Testing
Monkey testing is a type of software testing in which the tester tests the application or software by providing some random inputs and checking the behavior of the application or the software. It is also observed by seeing whether the application or software crashes on a given input or not. Monkey testing is usually implemented as random and automated unit testing. Monkey testing is named because of the Infinite Monkey Theorem.