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UI Testing with Puppeteer

By : Dario Kondratiuk
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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)

Keyboard and Mouse emulation

Although you will be able to test the most common scenarios by typing or clicking on elements, there are other scenarios where you would need to emulate how the users interact with a site using the keyboard and the mouse. Let's take, for instance, a Google spreadsheet:

Google Spreadsheet

The Google spreadsheet page has a lot of keyboard and mouse interactions. You can move through the cells using your keyboard arrows or copy values by doing drag and drop with the mouse.

But it doesn't need to be that complicated. Let's say that you work in the QA team at GitHub.com, and you need to test the search box from the home page.

As GitHub.com is for developers, and developers for some weird reason hate using the mouse, the development team added many shortcuts on the site. We want to create a test to check that those shortcuts are working as expected:

GitHub.com home page

As we can see there...