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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)

Interacting with Elements

Let's go back to our login test. We already have the three elements we need: The user input, the password input, and the login button. Now we need to enter the email and the password and click on the button.

Typing on input elements

The ElementHandle class has a function called type. The signature is type(text, [options]). The options class is not big this time. It only has a delay property. The delay is the number of milliseconds Puppeteer will wait between letters. This is great to emulate real user interaction.

The first part of our test would look like this:

const emailInput = await this.page.$('#email');
await emailInput.type(user, {delay: 100});
const passwordInput = await this.page.$('#password');
await passwordInput.type(password, {delay: 100});

Here, we are looking for the email and password elements, and then emulating a user typing on those inputs.

Now, we need to click on the button.

Clicking on elements...