Medvezhonok's definitions

monkey mode

There is an old saying about given a room full of monkeys with typewriters and enough time, they will produce the works of Shakespeare. Or something like that. "monkey mode" draws on that imagery to describe automated testing of software that randomly punches buttons and otherwise exercises the system to see whether it will fail.

Sure, you tested the happy path, but did you do the monkey mode test?

by Medvezhonok June 2, 2013