Summary

This chapter was massive. We began the chapter with a brief but complete introduction to HTML, the DOM, and CSS. These concepts are crucial to create top-notch tests. Then, we learned a lot about XPath, which is not a very popular tool, yet it is extremely powerful and will help you face scenarios where CSS selectors are not enough.

In the second part of this chapter, we went through the most common ways to interact with a page. Not only did we learn how to interact with elements but we also covered keyboard and mouse emulation.

I hope you enjoyed the tools section. Debugging with Visual Studio Code is a great tool to add to your toolbox.

In the next chapter, we are going to wait for stuff. Things take time on the web. Pages take time to load. Some actions on the page might trigger network calls. The next chapter is important because you will learn how to make your tests even more stable.