How to “ Monkey Test” a website

Question

I'm looking for a way to Monkey test a website. Something like a browser plugin in which you could define a time interval and non-clicking zones, and then the plugin would start clicking (and possibly other actions) everywhere (except the non-clicking zones or DOM elements) during the specified time interval.

I've searched online and only found this type of tests for iPhone and Android.

Answer 1

Selenium allows you to search the DOM elements in a page, and simulate clicks or keyboard events directed to a certain DOM element. That's not quite the same as defining "non-clicking zones" (which would presumably be defined in terms of X/Y coordinates), but it might possibly be even easier this way.

Answer 2

I'd recommend gremlins.js, a "Monkey testing library for web apps and Node.js"

https://github.com/marmelab/gremlins.js

Disclaimer: we wrote it.