[Question] How to make test() use the same browser instance as the beforeAll. (Ignore test isolation)

~~UPDATE: Check my comment https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/14508#issuecomment-1143274596~~ UPDATE 2: Check my comment https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/14508#issuecomment-1144617999

I am trying to reuse the authentication example provided at the documentation for multiple .spec files (I know that is not recommended but it is necessary for my case)

Is there any recommendation of POM with fixture that I can do to solve that issue?

I want to avoid rewrite this part multiple times:

test.beforeAll(async ({ browser }) => {
  // Create page once and sign in.
  page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('https://github.com/login');
  await page.fill('input[name="user"]', 'user');
  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', 'password');
  await page.click('text=Sign in');
});

[aslushnikov]

Should I not use the custom fixture and just do every time a instance of each PO per test set file?

@gegoncalves Yeah, I’d do it without fixtures! It should work reliably in case of single-page re-use.

[gegoncalves]

I don’t know if I understood your question @aslushnikov correctly

So you are asking to use a global variable instead of the custom fixtures? I was thinking to use the custom fixtures due to the fact of being easier to just call the related pages through fixtures per test case than create an instance of each used POM

The generalActions class will be only the basic method we have. Ex:

async clickElement(locator: string): Promise<void> {
        await this.page.locator(locator).waitFor();
        await this.page.locator(locator).click();
    }

this method we use inside of each PO we have. Ex:

// process-page.ts

  ...
  async addProcess(): Promise<Locator> {
        await generalActions.clickElement(list_locator);
        await generalActions.clickElement(process_locator);
        return this.getModal();
    };
   ...

    async getModal(): Promise<Locator> {
        await generalActions.waitForElementAttached(tab_locator);
        return generalActions.page.locator(MODAL_DIV);
    };

And after we have the fixture creation for each page that I shown here

Should I not use the custom fixture and just do every time a instance of each PO per test set file?

Probably I am doing something stupid without noticing 😅

For real, thanks for giving your time to help me with that