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UI Testing with Puppeteer

You're reading from   UI Testing with Puppeteer Implement end-to-end testing and browser automation using JavaScript and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206786
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dario Kondratiuk Dario Kondratiuk
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting started with Puppeteer 2. Chapter 2: Automated Testing and Test runners FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Navigating through a website 4. Chapter 4: Interacting with a page 5. Chapter 5: Waiting for elements and network calls 6. Chapter 6: Executing and Injecting JavaScript 7. Chapter 7: Generating Content with Puppeteer 8. Chapter 8: Environments emulation 9. Chapter 9: Scraping tools 10. Chapter 10: Evaluating and Improving the Performance of a Website 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exposing local functions

With Puppeteer, you can not only execute code inside the browser but also make calls from the browser back to your Node app. The exposeFunction function allows us to register Node functions inside the browser.

This is the exposeFunction signature: page.exposeFunction(name, puppeteerFunction):

  • The first argument is name. This will be the function name inside the browser.
  • puppeteerFunction is a function that follows the same style and functionality as all the functions we have learned about in this chapter.

This feature is perfect when it is called from a MutationObserver.

For instance, instead of executing a function over and over, waiting for the checkout counter to change, we could create a MutationObserver to let us know when the value has changed in the HTML Node. Let's see how the code would look:

let observer = new MutationObserver(list => console.log(list[0].target.nodeValue));
observer.observe(
  document...
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