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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Chapter 6: Executing and Injecting JavaScript

In the past few chapters, we learned about most of the basic Puppeteer features, from creating a browser and a page correctly, to finding elements and interacting with them.

Now it's time to get into more powerful tools. In this chapter, we will see how Puppeteer gives us the ability to execute JavaScript code in the browser.

It might sound like a hack or a last resort tool. Sometimes it is. But it is also a tool that will help us perform actions that are not provided by the Puppeteer API.

The communication between the code being executed on the Node side and the code being executed in the browser can sometimes be tricky. We will learn how to communicate with both sides efficiently.

As we did in the previous chapter, we will add another tool to our toolbox. We are going to run our code on Checkly.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Executing JavaScript code
  • Manipulating handles with JavaScript...
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