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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)

Introducing the tests sites for this chapter

In this chapter, we will test a site made with Vue.js. Thang Minh Vu (https://me.coddeine.com/) wrote a great Vue.js example: vuejs-firebase-shopping-cart (https://github.com/ittus/vuejs-firebase-shopping-cart).

Tip

When you look for projects on GitHub or any other site like GitHub, you need to pay attention to the license the project uses. The fact that the code is open source doesn't mean that you can use it as you wish. This project uses the MIT License, which is one of the most permissive licenses. This license basically states that you can use the code without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.

As we don't want you to deal with firebase setup, I forked this project (made a copy on GitHub), removing all the firebase code. You can find the...