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A Frontend Web Developer’s Guide to Testing

By : Eran Kinsbruner
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Book Image

A Frontend Web Developer’s Guide to Testing

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By: Eran Kinsbruner

Overview of this book

Testing web applications during a sprint poses a challenge for frontend web app developers, which can be overcome by harnessing the power of new, open source cross-browser test automation frameworks. This book will introduce you to a range of leading, powerful frameworks, such as Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, and Playwright, and serve as a guide to leveraging their test coverage capability. You’ll learn essential concepts of web testing and get an overview of the different web automation frameworks in order to integrate them into your frontend development workflow. Throughout the book, you'll explore the unique features of top open source test automation frameworks, as well as their trade-offs, and learn how to set up each of them to create tests that don't break with changes in the app. By the end of this book, you'll not only be able to choose the framework that best suits your project needs but also create your initial JavaScript-based test automation suite. This will enable fast feedback upon code changes and increase test automation reliability. As the open source market for these frameworks evolves, this guide will help you to continuously validate your project needs and adapt to the changes.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview
7
Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers
11
Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

Chapter 12: Working with the Puppeteer Framework

As highlighted in Chapter 3, Top Web Test Automation Frameworks, Google Puppeteer is the baseline framework that was built by the Microsoft team that is now responsible for Playwright. Both frameworks are node libraries based on the CDP, and that obviously allows the Puppeteer framework to acquire deep coverage and testing abilities for any web application. Unlike the Playwright framework, which supports most web browsers as well as other language bindings, Google's Puppeteer framework only works on Chromium-based browsers and only supports JavaScript.

The framework runs by default in Headless mode, but can also be run with the browser UI (in Headed mode). With rich built-in capabilities that support the generation of screenshots and PDFs from web pages, network HAR file creation, and the automation of complex web applications, including keyboard inputs, UI, capturing timeline traces of the website under test, and much more...