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PhantomJS Cookbook

PhantomJS Cookbook

By : Friesel
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PhantomJS Cookbook

PhantomJS Cookbook

4.2 (5)
By: Friesel
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Overview of this book

A task-based guide that provides solutions to real-world test automation problems. This book is intended for web development professionals who want to integrate PhantomJS into their development and testing workflows. If you are a web developer looking to run automated unit tests while you work, or perhaps you are a QA engineer looking for a fast test automation utility, then this book is perfect for you. Some prior knowledge of JavaScript would be helpful.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Getting Started with PhantomJS
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1. Getting Started with PhantomJS
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Introduction
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Installing PhantomJS
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Launching the PhantomJS REPL
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Running a PhantomJS script
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Running a PhantomJS script with arguments
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Running PhantomJS with cookies
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Running PhantomJS with a disk cache
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Running PhantomJS with a JSON configuration file
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Debugging a PhantomJS script
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2. PhantomJS Core Modules
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2. PhantomJS Core Modules
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Introduction
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Inspecting the version at runtime
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Managing cookies with the phantom object
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Specifying a path for external scripts
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Setting up a global PhantomJS error handler
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Controlling the exit status of a PhantomJS script
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Inspecting command-line arguments
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Inspecting system environment variables
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Saving a file from a PhantomJS script
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Reading a file from PhantomJS
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Creating a custom module for PhantomJS
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Loading custom modules in PhantomJS
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3. Working with webpage Objects
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3. Working with webpage Objects
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Introduction
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Creating a web page instance in PhantomJS with the webpage module
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Opening a URL within PhantomJS
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Generating a POST request from PhantomJS
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Inspecting page content from a PhantomJS script
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Including external JavaScript on the page
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Recording debugger messages
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Simulating mouse clicks in PhantomJS
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Simulating keyboard input in PhantomJS
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Simulating scrolling in PhantomJS
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Simulating mouse hovers in PhantomJS
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Blocking CSS from downloading
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Causing images to fail randomly
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Submitting Ajax requests from PhantomJS
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Working with WebSockets in PhantomJS
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4. Unit Testing with PhantomJS
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4. Unit Testing with PhantomJS
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Introduction
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Running Jasmine unit tests with PhantomJS
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Using TerminalReporter for unit testing in PhantomJS
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Creating a Jasmine test runner for PhantomJS and every other browser
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Running Jasmine unit tests with Grunt
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Watching your tests during development with Grunt
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Running Jasmine unit tests with the Karma test runner
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Generating code coverage reports with Istanbul and the Karma test runner
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Running Jasmine unit tests with Karma and PhantomJS from WebStorm
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Running QUnit tests with PhantomJS
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Running Mocha unit tests with PhantomJS
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5. Functional and End-to-end Testing with PhantomJS
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5. Functional and End-to-end Testing with PhantomJS
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Introduction
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Running Selenium tests with PhantomJS and GhostDriver
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Using WebdriverJS as a Selenium client for PhantomJS
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Adding Poltergeist to a Capybara suite
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Taking screenshots during tests with Poltergeist
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Simulating precise mouse clicks with Poltergeist
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Installing CasperJS
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Interacting with web pages using CasperJS
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End-to-end testing with CasperJS
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Exporting test results from CasperJS in the XUnit format
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Detecting visual regressions using PhantomCSS
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6. Network Monitoring and Performance Analysis
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6. Network Monitoring and Performance Analysis
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Introduction
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Generating HAR files from PhantomJS
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Listing CSS properties
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Generating an appcache manifest
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Executing a simple performance analysis
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Executing a detailed performance analysis
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Executing a YSlow performance analysis with a custom ruleset
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Automating performance analysis with YSlow and PhantomJS
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7. Generating Images and Documents with PhantomJS
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7. Generating Images and Documents with PhantomJS
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Introduction
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Rendering images from PhantomJS
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Saving images as Base64 from PhantomJS
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Rendering and rasterizing SVGs from PhantomJS
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Generating clipped screenshots from PhantomJS
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Saving a web page from PhantomJS as a PDF
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Applying custom headers and footers to PDFs generated from PhantomJS
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Testing responsive designs with PhantomJS
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8. Continuous Integration with PhantomJS
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8. Continuous Integration with PhantomJS
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Setting up PhantomJS in a CI environment
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Generating JUnit reports
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Generating TAP reports
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Setting up a fully covered project in CI with PhantomJS
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Index
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Index

Chapter 4. Unit Testing with PhantomJS

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Running Jasmine unit tests with PhantomJS
  • Using TerminalReporter for unit testing in PhantomJS
  • Creating a Jasmine test runner for PhantomJS and every other browser
  • Running Jasmine unit tests with Grunt
  • Watching your tests during development with Grunt
  • Running Jasmine unit tests with the Karma test runner
  • Generating code coverage reports with Istanbul and the Karma test runner
  • Running Jasmine unit tests with Karma and PhantomJS from WebStorm
  • Running QUnit tests with PhantomJS
  • Running Mocha unit tests with PhantomJS
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