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Migrate framework tests to use WidgetTester.startHover and WidgetTester.startHoverAt#194600
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@Mathvdias
Mathvdias
opened on Oct 16, 2026

Follow-up to #190630 (and #102754).

Many framework tests manually simulate mouse hover gestures using boilerplate:

final TestGesture gesture = await tester.createGesture(kind: PointerDeviceKind.mouse);
await gesture.addPointer(location: ...);
addTearDown(gesture.removePointer);
await gesture.moveTo(...);

In several places, tests also omit addTearDown(gesture.removePointer), leaving mouse pointers connected to MouseTracker across tests and causing order-dependent test failures.

Once #190630 lands, we can migrate existing hover tests across packages/flutter/test/ to use tester.startHover and tester.startHoverAt with addTearDown(gesture.removePointer).

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  3. Renzo-Olivares commented on Oct 20, 2026

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    on Oct 20, 2026
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    Thank you for following up @Mathvdias!

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