You're reading from A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing Explore leading web test automation frameworks and their future driven by low-code and AI

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238319

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Eran Kinsbruner

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview

2. Chapter 1: Cross-Browser Testing Methodologies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Challenges Faced by Frontend Web Application Developers

4. Chapter 3: Top Web Test Automation Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks

6. Chapter 5: Introducing the Leading Frontend Web Development Frameworks

7. Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers

8. Chapter 6: Map the Pillars of a Dev Testing Strategy for Web Applications

9. Chapter 7: Core Capabilities of the Leading JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks

10. Chapter 8: Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application

11. Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

12. Chapter 9: Working with the Selenium Framework

13. Chapter 10: Working with the Cypress Framework

14. Chapter 11: Working with the Playwright Framework

15. Chapter 12: Working with the Puppeteer Framework

16. Chapter 13: Complementing Code-Based Testing with Low-Code Test Automation

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up

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Summary

In this chapter, we covered the fundamentals of the Puppeteer framework and learned how to get started and run a JavaScript Puppeteer test. We reviewed Puppeteer's core capabilities; both the basic ones as well as the advanced ones, such as API testing, network mocking, BDD, accessibility, DevTools, CI integrations, working with elements, emulating mobile platforms, and more.

We then concluded the chapter by looking into the future of Puppeteer, while covering the framework's currently missing, and very much needed, features, along with emerging opportunities, such as the codeless solution, complementing web testing with support for PWA and Flutter within Puppeteer, reporting, and more.

With the core skills that were introduced in this chapter, you can now get started with your own Puppeteer project in JavaScript, create web application assertions, including monitoring network traces, run Lighthouse audits, create performance testing from your own workstation...