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GORILLA LOGIC RELEASES MONKEYTALK FOR CROSS-PLATFORM IOS, ANDROID FUNCTIONAL TESTING

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:18:02 +0000

New Open Source Testing Platform Helps Streamline the Delivery of Quality Mobile Applications

BOULDER, Colo., March 6, 2012 â�� Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), the leader in enterprise application development and automated mobile testing tools and services, today announced the availability of MonkeyTalk, a new cross-platform iOS/Android functional record/playback functional testing platform that unites the industry leading FoneMonkey for iOS and FoneMonkey for Android open source tools. MonkeyTalk provides a single, powerful, cross-platform testing environment that helps development teams speed the delivery of higher quality mobile applications. The power of MonkeyTalk is multiplied by Gorilla Logicâ��s new Continuous QA in the Cloud service offering (see todayâ��s announcement entitled, â��Gorilla Logic Announces New Cloud-based Quality as a Service (QaaS) Offering.â�� "Mobile application testing services are poised for enormous growth in 2012 with U.S. companies rapidly accelerating their demand for the use of third-party mobile application testing tools and services,â�� said Rona Shuchat, program director at IDC. â��With Gorilla Logicâ��s new Continuous QA Cloud offering, QA professionals can effectively and efficiently automate the testingÂ of mobile apps across multiple devices and simulators (in any combinations)Â to meet the increasing demand for highly usable and high performing mobile apps.â�� For the first time, QA professionals have a comprehensive solution for mobile application testing. MonkeyTalk fills a huge void in the application development/delivery toolkit by recording, playing back and validating any user interaction on any mobile device or tablet. MonkeyTalk handles any gesture on any component, and supports both iOS and Android, simulators or devices. Â As part of MonkeyTalk platform, Gorilla Logic has introduced the MonkeyTalk Command Language, a simple, but powerful, keyword- and data-driven language for specifying functional test scripts. Designed for QA professionals, MonkeyTalk Command Language is intuitive, readable and easy-to-learn. MonkeyTalk can be generated automatically through recording or composed from scratch with the MonkeyTalk IDE or with any text editor. In addition, testers and QA professionals can extend MonkeyTalk with their own application-specific commands without any programming. MonkeyTalkâ��s JavaScript API also allows tests to freely mix JavaScript and MonkeyTalk for enhanced control. â��Weâ��ve immersed ourselves in the functional testing tools space for four years with thousands of teams using FlexMonkey and FoneMonkey, so we were able to step back and redesign with a focus on how people work in the real world,â�� said Edward Schwarz, vice president of engineering and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. â��The MonkeyTalk command language as well as comprehensive support for JavaScript-based test scripting are examples of listening to QA pros talk about what they need to really drive value.â�� Â Key features of MonkeyTalk include:

Powerful data-driven functional testing for iOS and Android
Recording and playback of user interface interactions
Verifying expected versus actual results
Generating readable, maintainable scripts, as well as supporting easy creation of scripts from scratch
Automatically converting scripts to JavaScript which can be extended with custom logic
The ability to run in continuous integration environments
Free, open source licensing

â��With MonkeyTalk, weâ��re taking the whole mobile testing space to the next level - not only uniting our tools across platforms, but also focusing on the entire process of mobile QA and how to make as a seamless part of a Continuous Delivery process, or what we call Continuous QA,â�� said Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. Availability MonkeyTalk is a free and open source tool and is available now. It can be downloaded at (www.gorillalogic.com/testing-tools/monkeytalk). To read more about the latest announcement and what it means for the MonkeyTalk community, please visit (http://blog.gorillalogic.com/). For more information on Gorilla Logic, please visit: (www.gorillalogic.com). To read CEO Stu Sternâ��s blog on this announcement please visit: (www.stu-stern.blogspot.com).Â About Gorilla Logic Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services on the ground and in the cloud to many of the worldâ��s leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey, now called MonkeyTalk (iPhone/iPad/Android applications). To download Gorilla Logicâ��s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).Â

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SPARKFUN ELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES NEW DEVELOPMENT HARDWARE FOR ANDROID

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Electric Sheep Gives Customers USB Access to their Android-based Devices to Develop Their Own Accessories and Applications

BOULDER, Colo. Nov. 16, 2011 â�� SparkFun Electronics (www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts knowledge and passion for electronics creation, today proudly announced a new product designed to help inventors create new custom Android accessories.

The new product, aptly named the Electric Sheep, is designed to take advantage of the Android systemâ��s open accessory protocol. By communicating via USB, Electric Sheep gives users complete dynamic access to the phoneâ��s systems and enables the easy creation of custom applications and accessories such as controls for an autonomous vehicle or coupling your phone with a microcontroller such as an Arduino. These boards are not restricted to only Android phones, but can be used on any platform with the Android operating system and a USB port.

â��The Electric Sheep is a product we are really excited to announce,â�� said SparkFun Director of Marketing AnnDrea Boe. â��This product represents months of prototyping and design by the SparkFun engineers and will give its users free reign to create accessories for the Android system.â��

On the technical side, the Electric Sheep is based on the ATMega2560 microcontroller and bootloader and features a USB-host connector on-board for quick connection to Android devices. The board allows for the creation of accessories for Android using the Arduino IDEA and HandBag and is Arduino-shield compatible. Even if you don't have an Android device, the Electric Sheep can double as a development platform with all the functionality of the host microcontroller and a USB shield. The Electric Sheep is priced at $79.95 per unit and is now available on SparkFunâ��s website (www.sparkfun.com).

About SparkFun Electronics

Founded in 2003, SparkFun shares its passion for electronics by providing parts, knowledge, and innovation for those looking to explore the world of embedded electronics. It helps anyone discover their inner inventor and enables individuals to create their own electronics projects. SparkFun currently offers more than 1,800 products, ranging from simple components, like capacitors and resistors to GPS units and Bluetooth modules. The company employs 130 people and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

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GORILLA LOGIC LAUNCHES FONEMONKEY FOR ANDROID, A NEW AUTOMATED OPEN SOURCE TESTING TOOL FOR ANDROID APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:49:07 +0000

Latest open source-based automated testing tool fills gap in the Android development tool chain

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (AnDevCon Booth #605) Nov. 7, 2011 â�� Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and Rich Internet Applications (RIA), today announced FoneMonkey (http://www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey) for Android, its latest open source automated testing tool for mobile applications.

The new Android testing capabilities complement the popular FoneMonkey for iOS (iPhone and iPad) automated testing tool and extends Gorilla Logicâ��s comprehensive open source automated testing solution set by bringing Android developers and QA testers the same recording/playback and test script generation already enjoyed by iOS developers. It benefits developers by providing rapid creation of functional testing scripts; allows testers without in-depth Android Software Developer Kit (SDK) knowledge to easily and quickly create testing scripts; and, offers increased application quality and faster time-to-market.

Specific features contained in FoneMonkey for Android include:

â�¢ Records and plays back user interface interactions with native Android applications

â�¢ Scripts are readable, maintainable and also can be created from scratch without recording

â�¢ An Eclipse-based control console provides easy creation and editing of automation scripts

â�¢ Scripts can be created and ran on an emulator or actual device

â�¢ Supports virtually all Android SDK UI components and gestures

â�¢ Is free and open source

â�¢ Provides automatic generation of extensible test scripts in either Java or JavaScript

â�¢ Offers ability to run tests in continuous integration environments

"With an explosion of mobile applications in the market and a number of automated software quality offerings existing (and more evolving) for performance testing for mobile applications, the manual effort involved in functional testing remains significant and very costly," said Melinda Ballou, project director for IDC's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) service. "As companies increasingly put their brand out on mobile platforms and as business critical apps "go mobile," automation of functional testing across mobile platforms â�� including both iOS and Android â�� becomes key for business innovation and success."

Gorilla Logic's passion for delivering quality software applications for enterprise customers led to the creation of FoneMonkey. It is the only test tool for iOS and now Android that records all actions with the iPhone, iPad and Android phone while in use and plays them back as a test script at any time. It enables the interactive creation, editing and playback of automation scripts that exercise an application's user interface. Using FoneMonkey, developers and quality assurance team members can create suites of tests that automate and perform user operation sequences, and then verify results. FoneMonkey supports development as well as QA testing, and tests can easily be incorporated into continuous integration environments.

â��FoneMonkey for Android addresses a major gap in the Android development tool chain,â�� said Stu Stern, president and CEO of Gorilla Logic and co-creator of FoneMonkey. â��The FoneMonkey family of tools is the only record/playback functional testing tool for iOS and Android. With the addition of FoneMonkey for Android, Gorilla Logic has established its position as the pre-eminent provider of next generation functional testing tools for the mobile market.â��

Learn more about FoneMonkey for Android at (www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey4android).

About Gorilla Logic

Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services to many of the worldâ��s leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey (iPhone/iPad Apps/Android). To download Gorilla Logicâ��s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).

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