Appium quiz

Test your Appium knowledge with a free interactive quiz — 27 questions with answers and explanations. No signup needed to play.

What is the key difference between the "app" capability and the "appPackage"/"appActivity" pair on Android?

1. What is the key difference between the "app" capability and the "appPackage"/"appActivity" pair on Android?
2. What does driver.getContexts() and switchContext() let you do in a hybrid app test?
3. Why is testing a plain mobile website in a desktop or mobile browser generally a poor fit for Appium?
4. Why is XPath generally considered the locator strategy of last resort in Appium?
5. What is Appium primarily used for?
6. What is the W3C Actions API used for in Appium?
7. What is a common risk of running many Appium tests against a single shared session?
8. What are "desired capabilities" (or capabilities) in Appium?
9. Which capability difference is a common source of copy-paste bugs when porting an Android capabilities file to iOS?
10. Which automation engine does Appium use to drive Android apps?
11. A team's Appium suite is entirely built on deep XPath expressions and breaks on almost every UI redesign. What is the best long-term fix?
12. What does the newCommandTimeout capability control?

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