QABattle

Mobile Testing / Quiz

Gestures Under the W3C Flag

TouchAction is dead; long live pointer actions. Swipes, long-presses, and pinches that survive across screen sizes, or fail on the first small phone.

Difficulty
Medium
Format
Quiz
Points
150
Estimate
9 min

// MISSION BRIEF

Your Mission

Appium 2 speaks W3C: gestures are sequences of pointer events, plus each driver's mobile: gesture shortcuts. The teams still shipping TouchAction code and hardcoded coordinates are the ones with the mysterious 'fails only on the cheap test phone' tickets.

Six questions. Speed bonus active.

// FIRST CONTACT

Battle teaser

Your old TouchAction swipe code fails after upgrading to Appium 2 with a modern client. Why?

  1. AAppium 2 supports gestures only on iOS
  2. BTouchAction/MultiAction were JSONWP-era APIs, deprecated and dropped from modern clients; W3C pointer actions (or mobile: gesture commands) replace them
  3. CTouchAction still works; the test device is just broken
  4. DSwiping now requires a rooted device
Answers, scoring, hints, and the full battle stay sealed.

// SKILL TAGS

appiumgesturesmobile-testingw3c-webdriver