Using Puppeteer for automated UI testing

Puppeteer, a Node library from Google, offers a high-level API for controlling headless Chrome or Chromium via the DevTools Protocol, facilitating tasks like web scraping, automated UI testing, and performance analysis. This blog post outlines the setup and use of Puppeteer for creating a job scraper, detailing how to initialize the Puppeteer instance, navigate web pages, and extract job listings using JavaScript and Node.js. Additionally, it explores Puppeteer Recorder, a Chrome extension that simplifies the creation of automated tests by recording browser interactions and generating corresponding scripts. The post provides examples of setting up Node projects, creating scripts for web scraping, and running automated UI tests, emphasizing Puppeteer’s versatility in automating browser tasks.