Puppeteer Cloud Automation

Selenium and Puppeteer are both powerful browser automation tools, but they serve different needs. Puppeteer is a NodeJS library that provides fast, high-level control over Chrome and Chromium, making it a great choice for projects focused on headless browser testing or web scraping with JavaScript. It is known for its speed and reliability when testing in a Chromium-only environment.

Selenium, on the other hand, is a cross-browser testing framework that supports all major browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Internet Explorer. It allows you to write tests in multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, Ruby and JavaScript, offering greater flexibility for diverse teams.

If your goal is to test across different browsers and environments, Selenium offers broader test coverage and long-standing industry support. If your project is JavaScript-based and you only need to test in Chrome/Chromium, Puppeteer might be faster and easier to set up.

At TestingBot, we support both Selenium and Puppeteer, allowing you to choose the best tool for your specific testing needs.

Puppeteer testing refers to using Puppeteer, a NodeJS library developed by Google, to automate browser tasks for web application testing. Puppeteer provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium browsers, allowing developers and QA teams to script actions like clicking buttons, filling forms, taking screenshots and generating PDFs.

You can run Puppeteer tests in the cloud using a service like TestingBot. Instead of running tests locally, you upload your tests or point your script to TestingBot’s cloud grid, which spins up real browsers and devices. This allows you to scale tests across multiple environments and get faster results, without managing your own infrastructure.