The monkey lives again

Speaking of computers that used to stop running if you looked at them funny, a few years ago, I wrote about the Monkey app that was there on the original Mac. Many software engineers will recognize the premise – Monkey was just a chaos script randomly pressing mouse buttons and keys during the night hours, and if the computer crashed because of Monkey’s random actions, the team would be able to reproduce it and try to fix it. I was also inspired to try a Monkey-like approach for something creative. In hindsight, it’s a very Unsung post, so you might enjoy it! Also, in the post, I showed this boring version of Monkey: Since then, I discovered a different version with its own icon, perhaps designed by Susan Kare: (If creative use of randomness rings a bell, here’s also an earlier Unsung post about a different take.)#apple #history #marcin wichary #process #qa testing