yes both are same

No Monkey Testing and Gorilla Testing are not same.

Monkey Testing : Testing a system or an Application on the 
fly, i.e just few tests here and there to ensure the system 
or an application does not crash out 

Gorilla Testing : Testing one particular module, 
functionality heavily

Rathnam ..........i guess thats a wrong answer.
If u think that i am worng then plz provide me the 
justification for ur answer.

Vidya you are 100% correct

Devaraja.h .............thanx

vidhya ratnam is correct,actually as u said monkey or 
gorilla testing comes under the catagory of Adhoc 
testing,due to lack of time testers will test the main 
functionalities of the application ,this is called monkey 
or gorilla testing
this is satya,any doubts contact:9912418320

but monkey testing means ad hoc testing 
and gorilla testing means Testing one particular module, 
functionality heavily
thats the different

s vidya is correct

hi,monkey testing means testing the main modules by 
skipping the sub modules and gorilla testing means testing 
one particular module in detail

monkey testing means testing of an application, with no 
test case document, and design .It is just to check what 
could be the result ,if applicaton is used in improper way.
where as gorilla testing is the testing done on aplication, 
to check if the user thinks to break the application, with  
improper combination of keys,or pressing the key whose 
option is not available in application.
               so we can say in monkey testing ,no idea of 
application to the user eg-1 year baby is playing with 
keys,when application is running. Whereas gorilla testing, 
although the user know the the application functionality, 
but he wants to do more than that..

Vidya is correct

Monkey (light weight jumps easily) testing resembles the
behavior of a monkey on a tree....it jumps from one branch
to another with out any sequence/order....in the same way
monkey testing is the process of testing the functions of a
system with out any sequence or order...  a tester will test
one function in module A and jump to another function in
another Module G and come back to another function in module C..

It is also called Random testing...it factories to test the
quality of group of items they will pick some items randomly
from a group of items and test the quality and analyze the
results.. this will be done by higher people in the
Test/Quality Center...

Gorilla (heavy weight can't move so easily) Testing on the
other hand is testing a function or module heavily....for
example testing a email functionality by click on "send
email" button...or creating an order by click on "check out"
button... continuously for more times...(with out stopping
after the first click..) in the first case it will send many
emails if it is delivering for each click event...same away
it may try to create multiple orders if it is processing
order for each click event...and some times may go in to
loop and application will hang after consuming more
resources...generally this will happen if there is a problem
in the hardware (key board)...if the key board is too old
some times the keys may struck suddenly leads to generation
of multiple events....

actually as u said monkey or 
gorilla testing comes under the catagory of Adhoc 
testing,due to lack of time testers will test the main 
functionalities of the application ,this is called monkey 
or gorilla testing

Monkey testing is testing like a monkey(that is lightly with
main functionality and without maintaining the
order/sequences).It is used to save time and to test basic
funtion is fine or not in a app.

But gorrila testing is used for heavily testing with a main
functionality and tested it heavily in the application.

It may possible that after monkey there some major defect
but after gorrila testing there should not be any major defect.

Let me know if you have any doubt.

such questions are waste, I pity on those interviewer who
asks such questions. Such questions have no significance.
Its sheer wasting time of interviewer and interviewee.
There are many other and interesting  things to ask in the
interview. Fail to understand why such questions are given
importance. 

Not a good practice

Sorry

gorilla testing is testing a function or module heavily. 
there ll not be any defect to the application after this 
testing.

i think everybody got your answers.if not then mail me.

satish is 100% correct. By the name itself it can be 
understood. But both comes inder Ad-hoc testing category.

No Such thing called Gorilla testing

It seems now that the difference between monkey testing and 
gorilla testing is clear. 
I want to clarify another conception: although both monkey 
testing and gorilla testing comes from ad hoc testing, they 
are different from ad hoc testing and also random testing.

The following definitions from ISTQB glossary give a good 
description:

ad hoc testing(emphasizing testing process): Testing 
carried out informally; no formal test preparation takes 
place, no recognized test design technique is used, there 
are no expectations for results and arbitrariness guides 
the test execution activity.
random testing (emphasizing testing technique or test 
design) : A black box test design technique where test 
cases are selected, possibly using a pseudo-random 
generation algorithm, to match an operational profile. This 
technique can be used for testing non-functional attributes 
such as reliability and performance.
monkey testing(emphasizing testing behaviour): Testing by 
means of a random selection from a large range of inputs 
and by randomly pushing buttons, ignorant on how the 
product is being used.