Chapter 2: Automated Testing and Test runners

In Chapter 1, Getting started with Puppeteer, we covered the first fundamental pillar of this book: browser automation and headless browsers. In this chapter, we are going to cover the second pillar: UI testing. We learned that Puppeteer is not just about testing, but that doesn't mean that it's not an excellent tool for the job.

In this chapter, we are going to learn the fundamentals of Testing Automation. We are going to see the differences between UI Testing and End-to-End testing. If you have tried to write tests in Node.js before, you might have come across some weird names: Mocha, Jest, Jasmine, AVA, or Chai. That feels quite overwhelming if you are not used to these tools. We are going to ...

Get UI Testing with Puppeteer now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.