How to setting Android's MonkeyRunner for Eclipse

Date : Sat,2 Fabuary 2013
Writer : Ataya P

Monkey Runner Testing

Working Platform :
Lenovo Notebook , Intel Pentium Dual Core T2080 1.73GHz
2Gbyte RAM
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS- Precise Pangolin

Software:
- Eclipse (For my case, Eclipse Indigo)
- Android SDK installed

Hardware :
Your Android Phone ( For my case, Galaxy Nexus) connect via usb cable with your PC.

Now I tried to using MonkeyRunner for automatic application testing that working on Android phone. It's free and comes with the Android SDK itself. The working script was writen in Python(using Jython interpreter) I successfully setting the development environment on the Eclipse IDE … and I will show you how to do that.

Let's do it
1. Run Eclipse. Open Help-> Eclipse MarketPlace and search for PyDev then install it.

2.When finished install, Go to Window->Preferences->PyDev->Interpreter-Jython and setting 2 jar files
- Jython interpreters : Click [new...] and enter your ANDROID_SDK_PATH/tools/lib/jython.jar
- Libraries : Click [New Jar/Zip(s)] and enter your ANDROID_SDK_PATH/tools/lib/monkeyrunner.jar

3.Create new PyDev project.

4.Select project type as Jython, grammar version 2.5 and click finish button.

5.Add your test script and folder for saving capture screens

Add test script and capture screen folder

6.Open external tools configurations and add new configuration as below...
        - Location: select your ANDROID_SDK_FOLDER/tools/monkeyrunner
        - Working Directory : Select your working PyDev project directory.
        - Argument: Write down your test script file name.