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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)

Preface

Puppeteer is a multi-purpose browser automation tool created by Google. You will see Puppeteer being used in many different ways. It's used for web scraping, task automation, content generation, web monitoring, and UI testing.

This book focuses on UI testing, but we won't stop there. For instance, we have a chapter focused on content generation and another chapter that focuses on web scraping. If you read this book from cover to cover, you will be able to use Puppeteer in all fields.

When I found that there was no book about Puppeteer available on the market, that really motivated me: I wanted this book to cover the entire Puppeteer API. By the end of this book, you'll have learned about the whole Puppeteer API.