[QA] browser tests race condition with login/logout

[Chris Steipp]

On Jul 1, 2014 10:24 AM, "Jon Robson" <jrobson at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > I guess whenever we logout, all that username sessions are invalidated
> > on the server side.
>
> That is correct and apparently by design. [1]

Yep, by design. The alternative is to have a Google/fb style "log out my
other sessions" in preferences, in addition to centralauth changing how it
handle the login token.

So it's doable, but it's not an easy feature. If we can finish sul
finalization early, we can try to do that too.

>
> >
> > The fix would be to use different username probably. Or have the per
> > user session invalidation to only invalidate the given session id and
> > not per username (havent looked at mediawiki core code).
> I think this would make sense. Is it possible to do this easily? e.g.
> have users such as selenium-mobile etc
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49890
>
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