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I'm using Monkey to stress test one of my company's Android applications. However, the --throttle switch does not seem to work as specified.
For example, I set Monkey to inject an input event every 500 milliseconds. While the Monkey runner id noticeably slow down, it would still sometimes send multiple events in rapid succession. I then set the throttling to 5,000 milliseconds, but the issue would persist.
Am I doing something wrong?
I had faced the same issue.
What I was using:
./adb shell monkey -p your.company.name -v 50 --throttle 1000
Correct syntax:
./adb shell monkey -p your.company.name --throttle 1000 -v 50
According to the syntax mentioned here, all options should be before the event-count.
If you are already using this correctly, the "multiple events in rapid succession" should be the key, trackball events. For e.g.
:Sending Trackball (ACTION_MOVE): 0:(-3.0,3.0)
:Sending Trackball (ACTION_MOVE): 0:(-5.0,-2.0)
:Sending Trackball (ACTION_MOVE): 0:(2.0,2.0)
:Sending Trackball (ACTION_MOVE): 0:(-1.0,1.0)
:Sending Trackball (ACTION_MOVE): 0:(0.0,-1.0)
and
:Sending Key (ACTION_DOWN): 19 // KEYCODE_DPAD_UP
:Sending Key (ACTION_UP): 19 // KEYCODE_DPAD_UP
are grouped together (without the throttle delay), but are still counted towards the event count as 5 and 2 resp.
