Login fails in UI Mode but works fine in "normal" mode (or in vsc)
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Hi! I just started with playwright and i am currently trying to get the Global setup (for login) to work. I followed this example: https://playwright.dev/docs/test-global-setup-teardown#option-1-project-dependencies
When i start the tests from within vs code (normal or debug) everything works fine and also with npx playwright test. But when i try it in UI mode (npx playwright test --ui) the setup works but the following tests get stuck because it is not logged in. Am i missing something?
projects: [
{
name: 'setup',
testMatch: /global.setup\.ts/,
},
{
name: 'kst chrome',
testMatch: 'kst/*.spec.ts',
dependencies: ['setup'],
use: {
...devices['Desktop Chrome'],
viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 },
storageState: STORAGE_STATE,
},
},import { test as setup, expect } from '@playwright/test';
import { STORAGE_STATE } from '../playwright.config';
setup('do login', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto(process.env.BASE_URL as string);
await page.fill('input[id="userName"]', process.env.EMAIL as string);
await page.click('a[class="next-btn"]');
await expect(page.locator('input[id="password"]')).toBeVisible();
await page.fill('input[id="password"]', process.env.PASSWORD as string);
await page.click('a[data-testid="login-submit-btn"]');
await page.getByTestId('maintenance-window-close').click();
await expect(page.locator('img[alt="logo"]')).toBeVisible();
await page.context().storageState({ path: STORAGE_STATE });
});
This thread is trying to answer question "Why does the global setup for login fail in UI mode but work fine in normal or debug mode in playwright?"
2 replies
@4m3r1984: Sorry i only copied parts of my config, here is the rest of the file:
```
import { defineConfig, devices } from '@playwright/test';
import path from 'path';
/**
* Read environment variables from file.
* https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv
*/
require('dotenv').config();
export const STORAGE_STATE = path.join(__dirname, 'playwright/.auth/user.json');
export default defineConfig({
testDir: './tests',
/* Run tests in files in parallel */
fullyParallel: true,
/* Fail the build on CI if you accidentally left test.only in the source code. */
forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
/* Retry on CI only */
retries: process.env.CI ? 2 : 0,
/* Opt out of parallel tests on CI. */
workers: process.env.CI ? 1 : undefined,
/* Reporter to use. See https://playwright.dev/docs/test-reporters */
reporter: 'html',
/* Shared settings for all the projects below. See https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-testoptions. */
use: {
/* Base URL to use in actions like `await page.goto('/')`. */
baseURL: 'http://localhost:34015/',
/* Collect trace when retrying the failed test. See https://playwright.dev/docs/trace-viewer */
trace: 'on-first-retry',
},
/* Configure projects for major browsers */
projects: [
{
name: 'setup',
testMatch: /global.setup\.ts/,
},
{
name: 'kst chrome',
testMatch: 'kst/*.spec.ts',
dependencies: ['setup'],
use: {
...devices['Desktop Chrome'],
viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 },
storageState: STORAGE_STATE,
},
},
{
name: 'kst firefox',
testMatch: 'kst/*.spec.ts',
dependencies: ['setup'],
use: {
...devices['Desktop Firefox'],
viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 },
storageState: STORAGE_STATE,
},
}
```
Sorry i only copied parts of my config, here is the rest of the file:
import { defineConfig, devices } from '@playwright/test';
import path from 'path';
/**
* Read environment variables from file.
* https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv
*/
require('dotenv').config();
export const STORAGE_STATE = path.join(__dirname, 'playwright/.auth/user.json');
export default defineConfig({
testDir: './tests',
/* Run tests in files in parallel */
fullyParallel: true,
/* Fail the build on CI if you accidentally left test.only in the source code. */
forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
/* Retry on CI only */
retries: process.env.CI ? 2 : 0,
/* Opt out of parallel tests on CI. */
workers: process.env.CI ? 1 : undefined,
/* Reporter to use. See https://playwright.dev/docs/test-reporters */
reporter: 'html',
/* Shared settings for all the projects below. See https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-testoptions. */
use: {
/* Base URL to use in actions like `await page.goto('/')`. */
baseURL: 'http://localhost:34015/',
/* Collect trace when retrying the failed test. See https://playwright.dev/docs/trace-viewer */
trace: 'on-first-retry',
},
/* Configure projects for major browsers */
projects: [
{
name: 'setup',
testMatch: /global.setup\.ts/,
},
{
name: 'kst chrome',
testMatch: 'kst/*.spec.ts',
dependencies: ['setup'],
use: {
...devices['Desktop Chrome'],
viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 },
storageState: STORAGE_STATE,
},
},
{
name: 'kst firefox',
testMatch: 'kst/*.spec.ts',
dependencies: ['setup'],
use: {
...devices['Desktop Firefox'],
viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 },
storageState: STORAGE_STATE,
},
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