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UI Testing with Puppeteer

By : Dario Kondratiuk
Book Image

UI Testing with Puppeteer

By: Dario Kondratiuk

Overview of this book

Puppeteer is an open source web automation library created by Google to perform tasks such as end-to-end testing, performance monitoring, and task automation with ease. Using real-world use cases, this book will take you on a pragmatic journey, helping you to learn Puppeteer and implement best practices to take your automation code to the next level! Starting with an introduction to headless browsers, this book will take you through the foundations of browser automation, showing you how far you can get using Puppeteer to automate Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. You’ll then learn the basics of end-to-end testing and understand how to create reliable tests. You’ll also get to grips with finding elements using CSS selectors and XPath expressions. As you progress through the chapters, the focus shifts to more advanced browser automation topics such as executing JavaScript code inside the browser. You’ll learn various use cases of Puppeteer, such as mobile devices or network speed testing, gauging your site’s performance, and using Puppeteer as a web scraping tool. By the end of this UI testing book, you’ll have learned how to make the most of Puppeteer’s API and be able to apply it in your real-world projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 10: Evaluating and Improving the Performance of a Website

Many things can make a website a success or a complete failure. In Chapter 9, Scraping tools, we talked about a real estate website that can't be launched without content. On many websites, content is the number-one feature. Amazon.com could be the best website in the world, but if it doesn't have the book you are looking for, you will go somewhere else.

For other websites, functionality is the number-one feature. A website such as Trello.com is a success because you can move cards from one list to another easily and intuitively. But functionality is not only about rich web pages. If we go back to the Amazon website, the website is pretty straightforward. It doesn't use any cool UI framework, but it has a great search and well-planned navigation.

The website design can also be considered a feature. While some websites such as www.google.com might look simple and focused on delivering content, you...