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Authentication architecture at scale

storageState files, setup projects, several roles and token expiry. Auth design decides both runtime and reliability.

What you'll learn

  • How setup projects authenticate once per run
  • How to handle several roles and token expiry
  • Why a mutating test needs its own account

Six roles, two thousand tests, and a token that expires after thirty minutes while the suite runs for forty. This lecture is the architecture that handles all three.

The mechanism. storageState is a JSON file holding cookies and localStorage. Save it once, and any context can start from it already authenticated.

The setup project pattern, which is the piece that makes this scale:

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