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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)

Chapter 8: Environments emulation

I had the good luck of using the internet before it became popular. I was a teenager when Windows 95 Plus was launched to the market. Most people might remember Windows 95 Plus because it came with some cool themes and even the Space Cadet Pinball game. But this version of Windows brought a new software application whose name is still around these days, with haters and lovers. Windows 95 Plus came with Internet Explorer 1.0 (IE 1.0).

My first internet connection was a free phone number that a local newspaper shared with its readers. I was able to convince my dad to get me a modem. The speed was 36.6 kbps. Today my speed test goes to 150 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload, over 4,000 times faster than the speed I got as a teen.

I don't remember very well the specs of my computer. But I do remember using a 15'' 800x600 monitor, and then upgrading to a 17'' 1,024x768. LED? No way! What's that? There were some bulky, eye...