Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
Puppeteer is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
What are some alternatives to Puppeteer?
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.
Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
Node.js, Catchpoint Synthetics, Root Cause, Checkly, Argos CI and 1 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Puppeteer. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Puppeteer.
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