Run multi-user scenarios in a single Playwright test using parallel browser contexts

domain: playwright.dev · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Call browser.newContext() twice inside one test to create two isolated contexts, each with its own cookies, localStorage, and session state
  2. Open a page in each context and authenticate each as a different user, storing credentials only within that context
  3. Perform actions in both pages — for example, user A sends a message and user B receives it — asserting against both pages in the same test
  4. Close both contexts explicitly at the end of the test to release resources; Playwright does not auto-close manually created contexts
  5. For worker-level reuse, create shared contexts in a fixture with scope: 'worker' so the same authenticated pair is shared across tests in a worker

Known gotchas

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