21.Session Command

Session Command

Cypress session allows the tester to manage multiple sessions in isolation.
Each session has a unique Id. It can be of type string, number, object or array.
On the first session request it will perform all actions and store the details of cookies, local storage and session storage also known as Session Details.
For the next session request with the same Id, it will simply restore all the Session Details created during the previous session.

For the first time for user1 and user2 it will perform steps inside the session function.
For the second time when we call the login function with user1, instead of repeating steps from the session function it will use the session details created during the first login with user1 making execution faster and eliminating repeating steps.

Here, for each user login, we need to clear session details from the previous user.
Also, logging in with another user will perform all the authentication steps from scratch.

First of all, to enable the session in Cypress we need to add the below entry in cypress.config.js.

For each email, new session details will be created and stored in memory.
If we try to re-authenticate with the same email, instead of performing authentication steps it will reuse session details from the previous authentication.

Note: Each session request needs to be followed by cy.visit("/<Some URL>") since the session command will clear the current content on the page.