PawJS

Paw simulates touches and touch gestures including taps, holds, swipes, pinches, and custom gestures. It comes with a touch recorder that can record your interactions and emit javascript code that you can load right into Paw to play your custom recorded gestures.

This is great for automated testing of these interactions in a repeatable way, especially on mobile.

Install using bower

# install bower if you haven't already
$ npm install -g bower

# install this package
$ bower install git@github.com:Workiva/paw.git

If you are using RequireJS

• In your requirejs configuration, ensure the following config exists:

requirejs.config({
    paths: {
        'paw': 'bower_components/paw/src/'
    }
});

If you want to use the Paw Gesture Recorder in your project

• Install paw as an npm dev dependency
• run the paw-record script

npm install paw --save-dev
./node_modules/.bin/paw-record # starts the recorder

Protip: Add ./node_modules/.bin to your path to be able to run paw-record without specifying the path

Try the demos

cd paw
npm install
bower install
grunt serve

Usage / Examples

Paw is wrapped using the universal module definition pattern so it can used by either AMD or CommonJS module loaders or just included into a page via a script tag. Once you've constructed a new Paw you can start chaining calls to gestures. All calls are sequenced internally so you can write nice fluent style code like this:

var paw = new Paw();

// Taps at 100x100, then waits for 1 second, then swipes diagonally. 
// The swipe takes 1 second
// You can also sequence in any function, in this case we love kool-aid.

paw.tap('100px 100px')
   .wait(1000)
   .swipe('top left', 'bottom right' )
   .then(function() { alert('oh yeah!'); })

// Tap on a matching DOM element
paw.tap('#myBtnId');
// same as
paw.tap(document.getElementById('myBtnId'));
// same as
// Tap on a jQuery selector (FYI Paw does not depend on jQuery)
paw.tap( $('#myBtnId') );

// You can add custom gestures to Paw

var customGestures = {
  downUp: function(done) {
    this
    .touch('50% 20%')
    .wait(40)
    .drag('50% 40%')
    .wait(40)
    .drag('50% 20%')
    .wait(40)
    .release()
    .then(done);
}
var paw = new Paw(customGestures);
paw.downUp(); // runs your custom gesture

Project Structure

• bower_components libraries distributed by Bower
• docs project design and API documentation
• node_modules libraries distributed by NPM
• out output from build tasks
• src source files
• test test files
• tools supporting tools for code quality, builds, etc.

Development: Process

This project uses wf-grunt for building.

Credit

Credit goes to faketouches which inspired this code.