Automating the Web Using PhantomJS and CasperJS

Data scraping, monitoring and testing can be labor-intensive and time-consuming when done manually. This course, Automating the Web using PhantomJS and CasperJS teaches web developers how PhantomJS (a "headless", scriptable web browser) or CasperJS (a utility wrapper for PhantomJS) can be used to automate interactions with websites. You will first learn how to programmatically extract target information from a website by creating a navigation code. This allows you to automatically collect the links that you would like to test using your toolset. Next, you'll create a script to visit all links gathered, and then take screenshots. Finally, you will build a script to monitor the network activity of a page to catch potential failures. You will also implement a testing suite that checks the accessibility requirements of a web page's markup. This course will teach you how to use PhantomJS or CasperJS to automate these tasks, saving you time and effort.