Puppeteer Tutorial
Selected Reading
- Puppeteer - Discussion
- Puppeteer - Useful Resources
- Puppeteer - Quick Guide
- Puppeteer - Capture Screenshot
- Puppeteer - Synchronization
- Puppeteer - Disable JavaScript
- Puppeteer - Device Emulation
- Puppeteer - Getting Element Attribute
- Puppeteer - Getting Element Text
- Puppeteer - Keyboard Simulation
- Puppeteer - Handling Frames
- Handling Edit Boxes & Checkboxes
- Puppeteer - Handling Links/Button
- Puppeteer - Attribute Selector
- Puppeteer - Id Selector
- Name Selector & Class Name Selector
- Puppeteer - Type Selector
- Puppeteer - Xpath Axes
- Puppeteer - Relative Xpath
- Puppeteer - Absolute Xpath
- Puppeteer - Xpath Grouping
- Puppeteer - Xpath Attributes
- Puppeteer - Xpath Functions
- Puppeteer - Locators
- Puppeteer - Handling Drop-downs
- Puppeteer - Handling Confirm Alerts
- Puppeteer - Chrome
- Puppeteer - Firefox
- Puppeteer - Basic Commands
- Puppeteer - Handling Tabs
- Puppeteer - Browser Operations
- Comparison Between Puppeteer & Cypress
- Comparison Between Puppeteer & Protractor
- Comparison Between Puppeteer & Selenium
- Puppeteer - Non Headless Execution
- Puppeteer - Basic Test
- Puppeteer - Installation
- Puppeteer VS Code Configuration
- Puppeteer - NodeJS Installation
- Puppeteer - Usage of Google
- Puppeteer - Element Handling
- Puppeteer - Introduction
- Puppeteer - Home
Selected Reading
- Who is Who
- Computer Glossary
- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
Comparison Between Puppeteer & Cypress
Comparison Between Puppeteer & Cypress
The major differences between Puppeteer and Cypress are as follows −
| Sr.No | Puppeteer | Cypress |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puppeteer is a module in node developed for Chromium engine. | Cypress is a dedicated test automation framework developed in JavaScript. |
| 2 | Puppeteer is mainly used for web page scraping and crawpng SPA(Single Page Apppcation). | Cypress is mainly used to automate test cases for a complete apppcation. |
| 3 | Assertions in Puppeteer are based on the Mocha, Jasmine or Jest frameworks. | Cypress has its inspanidual assertions. |
| 4 | VS Code and Webstorm are mostly used as an IDE for Puppeteer. | Cypress has its inspanidual IDE. |
| 5 | Puppeteer is developed mainly for Chromium so the tests developed are mainly executed in Chrome. | Cypress can be used to execute tests on multiple browsers pke Chrome, Firefox, Electron and so on. |
| 6 | Puppeteer has no dashboard. | Cypress has its dashboard to see the recorded tests and gives us detail on the events that took place during execution. |
| 7 | Puppeteer is faster in executing tests than Cypress. | Cypress is slower in executing tests than Puppeteer. |
| 8 | Puppeteer APIs are not easier to use than Cypress. | Cypress APIs are easier to use than Puppeteer. |
| 9 | Puppeteer comes free of cost. | Cypress has both free and paid versions. |
| 10 | Puppeteer has no features of fixtures and group fixtures in tests. | Cypress has the features of fixtures and group fixtures appped in tests. |
| 11 | Grouping of tests for execution cannot be done in Puppeteer. | Grouping of tests for execution can be done in Cypress. |
| 12 | Puppeteer has no mocking capabipties. | Cypress has the mocking capabipties. |
Let us observe the npm trends of Puppeteer and Cypress for the last two years. We shall observe an upward trend towards the use of both Puppeteer and Cypress (available from the below pnk) −
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