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PizzaScript - Browser Automation & Performance Monitoring

PizzaScript is a JavaScript browser automation framework with built-in performance monitoring.

It includes:

A script recorder / editor, with a REPL and debugger for interactively writing tests.
A standalone script runner, for running a set of tests, capturing screenshots & performance metrics.
A Java API, for embedding the script runner in your own projects.

Features

Inspect page load times and HTTP traffic
Wait on page load, HTTP traffic, elements to be visible
Many useful CSS selector extensions (e.g. "a:contains(Click me!)" selects a link with the text "Click me!")
Take screenshots
Block/redirect certain URLs (e.g. block 3rd party beacon URLs)
Modify request headers
Emulate Mobile and Tablet devices
Emulate network conditions (e.g. 3G/4G/Offline)
Record WebSocket request/responses

Try It!

First make sure the following are installed:

Chrome 40+
Java 8 JRE

Then download the latest PizzaScript release.

To open the script recorder:

bin/pizzascript-ide

To run a script and generate a report:

bin/pizzascript scripts/basic.js

To run a performance test as a continuous integration job see Jenkins Setup

The Chrome executable will be picked up from well-known Chrome install locations, if not found there then the PATH is searched. See Chrome Setup for troubleshooting and/or manually configuring the Chrome location.

Tested on Linux, OSX and Windows.

Runner

Script Recorder

Examples

Load Page

b = pizza.open("www.google.com");
b.verifyText("Search");

Site Login

var b = pizza.open();
b.open("loadtestgo.com");
b.click("button:contains(Login)");
b.waitPageLoad();
b.type("#inputUsername", "demo@loadtestgo.com");
b.type("#inputPassword", "password");
b.click("button:contains(Login):nth(1)");
b.waitPageLoad();

Load Mobile Site

var b = pizza.open();
b.emulateDevice("Apple iPhone 6")
b.open("cnn.com");

Alternatives

Browsertime - Access the Web Performance Timeline, from your browser, in your terminal!
Lighthouse - Auditing and performance metrics for Progressive Web Apps.
PhantomJS - Drive a headless browser using JavaScript, take screenshots and capture performance metrics.
WebPageTest - Test a site's peformance from many different locations with a wide variety of browsers.

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