Prevent Monkey

[David-Lannion]

Problem description

I use monkey tests to find leaks but the monkey is deleting the leaks :/

Potential solutions

From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10285067/how-to-filter-specific-activities-to-be-tested-by-monkey-using-android-intent-ca
Add a test : if (ActivityManager.isUserAMonkey()) {finish();}

Additional information

[pyricau]

The thing is, others have used a monkey to find bugs in the activity that displays leaks, so I'd rather not do that :) .

However, when running the monkey, you could:

• Remove the leak activity launcher icon with LeakCanary.showLeakDisplayActivityLauncherIcon(false)
• Replace the OnHeapAnalyzed listener with something that doesn't delegate to the default (which saves to a local db and shows the notification), and instead capture these results and display them. https://square.github.io/leakcanary/recipes/#customizing-the-handling-of-analysis-results

[David-Lannion]

Ok but at least protect the delete/DeleteAll button maybe?

[pyricau]

That would defeat the point.

That being said, I'm curious: if we implement the solution you proposed to finish the activity immediately when the user is a monkey, how do you intend to use the monkey to report / detect leaks? Did you intend to manually go into the activity after running the monkey?