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Can not simultaneously run monkeyrunner scripts (e.g. two monkeyrunner process) on multi device

test.py script content:

import ....

device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,sys.argv[1])

device.startActivity(component='package/activity')

'''
some monkeyrunner events
'''

I have two device , labled device1-id and device2-id

  1. run the monkeyrunner test.py device1-id &

  2. run the monkeyrunner test.py device2-id &

I found some events in device2-id were sent to device1-id. I don't know why ?

I noticed some tutorials , they said , if run monkeyrunner on more devices, could write the script like below:

device1 = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,device1-id)
device2 = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,device2-id)

device1.actions

device2.actions

but this wasn't what I need. Anybody know why the monkeyrunner behaves this ?

What I need is that , I have one script , would run the same script on multi device simultaneously .

Solution

  • I believe that Monkeyrunner is not thread safe.

    To test this, create 2 scripts, hardcoding the deviceId into each. Start each script: In windows, use the "start script1" and then "start script2" In Unix use "script1 &; script2 &"

    Notice that script1 fails with errors after it looks like it started working just fine. and that SCript2 also fails to do what it was intended to do because it gets commands from both windows.