Opensource Flex testing framework -

I am excited. While Adobe works with commercial vendors to provide automation solutions for testing Flex/AIR applications, lot of small developers and solution providers may not be ready yet for commercial licensing of such tools. FlexMonkey, an opensource application that does a good job automating Flex testing, has its GA release today.

What is FlexMonkey:

“FlexMonkey is an Adobe AIR application used for testing Flex and AIR based applications. Providing the functionality to record, playback and verify Flex UI interactions, FlexMonkey also generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that you can easily include within a continuous integration environment.”

Watch the short video for intro. And can find info at Adobe Devnet Article:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexmonkey.html

http://www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey is the landing page for this tool.

-          It lets you create a decent test suite, create test cases and maintain them

-          You don’t need to learn a new scripting language

-          Create / edit test cases through wizards

-          Supports good Object recognition spy

-          Gives a good test running UI and generates test reports

  

Docs: http://www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey/docs

License: Open Source

Overall it looks an attractive tool for folks not yet started automating Flex/AIR testing, and it comes free, without a learning curve.