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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)

Summary

This chapter was massive. We began the chapter with a brief but complete introduction to HTML, the DOM, and CSS. These concepts are crucial to create top-notch tests. Then, we learned a lot about XPath, which is not a very popular tool, yet it is extremely powerful and will help you face scenarios where CSS selectors are not enough.

In the second part of this chapter, we went through the most common ways to interact with a page. Not only did we learn how to interact with elements but we also covered keyboard and mouse emulation.

I hope you enjoyed the tools section. Debugging with Visual Studio Code is a great tool to add to your toolbox.

In the next chapter, we are going to wait for stuff. Things take time on the web. Pages take time to load. Some actions on the page might trigger network calls. The next chapter is important because you will learn how to make your tests even more stable.