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Authenticate via the API for login steps
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Authenticating via the API to satisfy test preconditions should be more reliable and faster than driving the browser. It also has the added benefit of not exposing credentials in the Selenium logs (see {T89353}).

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Login helper for fast API-based authenticationmediawiki/seleniummaster+67 -5
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• dduvall created this task.Sep 17 2015, 4:20 PM
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Change 226950 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dduvall):
Login helper for fast API-based authentication

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226950

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 17 2015, 4:22 PM
• dduvall set Security to None.Sep 17 2015, 4:22 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Sep 21 2015, 1:12 PM

Change 226950 merged by jenkins-bot:
Login helper for fast API-based authentication

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/226950

• dduvall mentioned this in rMSELbee2f8910f04: Login helper for fast API-based authentication.Sep 21 2015, 1:41 PM
• dduvall closed this task as Resolved.Sep 22 2015, 3:06 PM
• dduvall mentioned this in T113811: Release and announce mediawiki_selenium 1.6.0.Sep 25 2015, 10:14 PM
greg added a project: OKR-Work.Jan 11 2016, 10:57 PM
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