What Bugs Can Be Found During Gesture Tour?

by Nataliia Vasylyna | December 17, 2013 10:00 am

Testing tours are among widely used approaches to web site testing, desktop testing and mobile application testing. There are many types of them. One of the efficient approaches to mobile testing is gesture tour. A tester can discover many unexpected gesture related errors in the tested software product utilizing the method.

Common Software Bugs That Can Be Omitted Without Gesture Tour:

• some functions or objects may not respond to any gestures;
• certain gestures may activate some functions on one screen of the system, but the same gestures may call quite different functions on the other screen of the same system;
• certain gestures may not be supported by the software;
• after inputting by means of gesture the application may not be able to redraw the screen;
• the software product may respond to gesture inputs with delays;
• the application may crash because of some gestures;
• the system may support gestures that are not supposed to be supported; such often happens when the developers utilize third party’s libraries;
• touch objects may be too big or too little.

A software testing company advises to check uncommon ways of gestures inputs during mobile application testing because users can interact with a software product in ways unexpected be the developers.

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Source URL: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2013/12/17/what-software-bugs-can-be-found-during-gesture-tour/

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