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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

The headless recorder

The headless recorder is a Chrome extension developed by Checkly (https://www.checklyhq.com/). This extension will record the actions you perform on a page and generate Puppeteer code based on those actions. I think it's a great tool to get a first draft of a Puppeteer test, and from there, start working on the final code.

You can download this extension by going to the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore) and searching for Headless Recorder:

Headless Recorder

Once installed, you will find a recorder icon at the top right of your browser. From there, you will have the record button, which will start to capture all the actions you perform on a page:

Record option

Once you finish performing your test actions, you click stop, and you'll get the code almost ready to be used:

Headless Recorder result

I say almost ready because the recorder can't guess your...

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