Hi there, I am new to e2e-testing and I am currently figuring out how to stay logged in (via Azure AD) while doing several tests. The login logic itself is working fine (I used parts of this repo: https://github.com/juunas11/AzureAdUiTestAutomation). My

cy.loginWithApiCall()

-function is creating several items in the local storage, which than is being used by the website to authenticate the user. The problem which I am facing is with sessions: Currently I have to login for every test, which might lead to a lock down of the account (because of to many calls in a certain period). I would prefer to stay logged in, if that is possible, but have separate tests (

it('test1'), ...

). Is that possible, or is it prevented by design to have isolated tests?

ts
/// <reference types="cypress" />

describe('Dashboard', () => {

  it('login via RPOC works correctly', () => {
    cy.session('mySession', () => {
      cy.loginWithApiCall(); //👈call for each test
      cy.visit('/').url().should('include', '/portal');
    });
  });

  it('"Welcome" is visible', () => {
    cy.session('mySession', () => {
      cy.loginWithApiCall(); //👈call for each test
      cy.visit('/portal').contains('Welcome');
    });
  });
});

The strange part is, that the

cy.beforeEach()

function does not work as well (Is it because it is outside the session?). I would think, that I could reuse a session with the same ID, but I guess this is isolated for each

it()

function?