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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)

Running our checks with Checkly

This is an extra tool that I want to show you, and you shouldn't miss the chance of trying it out. Checkly (https://www.checklyhq.com/) is a platform that will help you monitor your website. The following screenshot shows the Checkly website:

Checkly website

Once you create an account in Checkly, you will be able to upload your tests (or checks), and Checkly will run those checks every certain number of minutes, reporting back. Firstly, it will report whether the check is passing, and secondly, it will report the time it took to run.

You will also be able to test your website's API without running a browser. This is huge. It's like having your own, personal quality guard.

Let's go to https://www.checklyhq.com/ and start our trial. Follow these steps to start using Checkly:

  1. Once you enter your email, phone number, and account name, you will get the first dashboard with a few examples, as shown...