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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)

Summary

As you can see, we started to go deeper into the Puppeteer API. We learned about all the different options we can use when launching a browser. We also learned how to navigate through a site and the different options we have to go from one page to another. We also saw new objects that weren't mentioned before, such as the Response and the Request class.

I hope you found the continuous integration section valuable. There are many tools and many different ways to run tests automatically in the cloud. This is an essential tool to add to your toolbox.

In the next chapter, we will get even more practical. We will see how to interact with the page, from CSS selectors to mouse and keyboard emulation.