Executing Puppeteer using Java

Question

Recently came across this tool Puppeteer, checked documentation and few videos related to the options it is providing. It matches my use case of executing UI tests in headless browser without the installing the browser.

With puppeteer we need not to install chrome browser to run tests is my understanding please correct me if I'm wrong.

I need to run UI tests using the Java programming language but puppeteer is a node library.

Can anyone tell me how to do this or if this is even possible?

Answer 1

No this is not possible to easily use Puppeteer from Java But fortunately, Puppeteers' successor named Playwright ( https://playwright.dev/ ) has a version for Java ( https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-java ) now! At the moment, Playwright for Java a pretty stable beta, being developed and you can always ask for support in Slack Comparing these two tools, Playwright is pretty similar to Puppeteer in terms of syntax but supports 3 main browsers (Chromiun, Firefox and WebKit) out of the box