How to write Spock tests that share the browser sessions

Question

I was trying to automate some functional tests using Spock (Grails app) and I'm not able to figure out how to automate the following: I need to be able to login to one Web app and click on a link (from the web app) and open a new browser window and be logged in to the second app (because they share the user credentials - they use SSO). All the functionalities I need to test are on the second web app and there is NO direct login to that app.

I was wondering if there is a way to use the current browser session (and share the cookie) between web apps.

I would appreciate any ideas.

Answer found

I have managed to find the answers to my query. As mentioned in my comments below, I used withNewWindow() method as follows:

withNewWindow({ AnchorForNewPage.click()}){ assert at(NewPage) do something and something else } Make sure that actions you perform on the second page are all within this closure, otherwise the tests will fail.

Answer 1

Let me quote The Book of Geb:

The geb.spock.GebSpec class will clear the cookies in the cleanup() method unless the spec is @Stepwise, in which case they are cleared in cleanupSpec() (meaning that all feature methods in a stepwise spec share the same browser state).

Not sure will it do for SSO and session sharing between two web-apps, but you may give it a try. Just keep the test steps requiring shared session as fixture methods in single Specification class.