How to prevent entering settings when using Monkey Test

Question

I have a monkey test with my application in android device(LG G4).

The command is

adb shell monkey -p {package name} -v 2000

But it may accidentally enter settings and change my device's default value.

How to prevent it ?

Answer 1

Monkey support blacklist, you could your setting package name in blacklist then run Monkey, Monkey will not perform test in package which you set in blacklist.

you can do like this:

1. adb shell pm list packages get your setting package name
2. open a blacklist.txt file, and put package name in it, then push it to your device like /sdcard/blacklist.txt
3. run Monkey with --pkg-blacklist-file like this: adb shell monkey --pkg-blacklist-file /sdcard/blacklist.txt