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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

Finding elements

It's time to apply everything we have learned so far. We need to master selectors because our Puppeteer code will be mostly about finding elements and interacting with them.

Let's bring back the login page from our e-commerce app:

Login page

If we want to test the login page, we need to find these three elements: The email input, the password input, and the login button.

If we right-click on each input and click on the Inspect element menu item, we will find the following:

  • The email has the ID email.
  • The password has the ID password.
  • The login is a button element, with the btn and btn-success CSS classes, and the style=" width: 100%;" style.

Puppeteer provides two functions to get elements from the page. The $(selector) function will run the document.querySelector function and return the first element matching that selector or null if no elements were found. The $$(selector) function will run...

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