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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)

Puppeteer use cases

Remember, the main difference between Puppeteer and Selenium is that Selenium is designed for end-to-end testing. In contrast, Puppeteer is designed as an API to exploit all the power of the DevTools, which means that besides end-to-end tests, there are also other use cases where you can use Puppeteer, as we will see now.

Task Automation

There are many things we do on the web that you can automate. For example, you can download a report, fill in a form, or check flight prices. You might also want to check your website's health, monitor its performance, or check whether your website is working correctly. In Chapter 6, Executing and Injecting JavaScript, we will see how to use Checkly to monitor your website in production.

Web Scraping

Most library authors won't like to say that you can use their library to do web scraping. Web Scraping has a reputation for being illegal. But in Chapter 9, Scraping tools, we will see how to do web scraping in...