[QA] browser tests race condition with login/logout

[Chris McMahon]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Chris Steipp <csteipp at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
I thought I'd mention it here also:  our tests do not explicitly log out.
 They close the browser while still logged inl.  I think there is one
exception to this in the MobileFronted build, but to the best of my
knowledge we have no tests that log out other than that one.
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