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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

Waiting for functions

We learned about many wait functions in Chapter 5, Waiting for elements and network calls. We learned to wait for network events, for DOM elements to be visible or hidden. We also covered many page events we can wait for. But in the same way that a CSS selector won't cover 100% of cases, and an XPath expression cannot cover all other scenarios, the same happens with wait functions.

There are some scenarios where we need something more. Now we have the waitForFunction.

This is the signature of the waitForFunction function: page.waitForFunction(pageFunction, options, ...args).

The first argument is the pageFunction. It works in the same way as in the evaluate function. It can be a JavaScript function; it could also be a string; it can expect arguments, and so on.

The third argument, args, is the arguments that can be sent to the function. This is an optional list of values.

I didn't forget about the second argument. The second argument is...

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