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Clear sessionStorage in between tests

See original GitHub issue

Currently we clear cookies and localStorage but somehow we missed automatically clearing sessionStorage as well.

This needs to be added, and we likely need to add a new cy.clearSessionStorage API command.

Thanks to @abadstubner for finding this one.

Currently as a workaround you can manually clear sessionStorage like this:

cy.window().then((win) => {
  win.sessionStorage.clear()
})

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:124
Comments:29 (10 by maintainers)

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brian-manncommented, Jan 11, 2018

clearing sessionStorage are just synchronous methods you call on the window.

cy.visit('...', {
  onBeforeLoad: (win) => {
    win.sessionStorage.clear()
  }
})

Read https://docs.cypress.io/api/events/catalog-of-events.html as well.

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single-stop-justincommented, Aug 14, 2020

When will cy.clearSessionStorage be implemented?

None of the workarounds have worked here. I am even clearing session store beforeEach and onBeforeLoad. The result is tests randomly passing, definitely a race condition.

One time the entire suite passes. The next time one test fails. The next time three fails. The next time two different tests fail…