I've always treated each scenario as its own session. It eliminates some of 
the complication with session tear-down/cleanup since every session is 
brand new. The only thing I have to worry about is closing the browser at 
the end of each of scenario.

On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 11:27:01 AM UTC-6, Chuck van der Linden 
wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 10:19:09 AM UTC-8, Arik Jones wrote:
>>
>> You could create a browser session in `features/support/env.rb` and 
>> assign it to an instance variable
>> and then use that session in your feature files. Its basically a global 
>> hook, but you'll need to end that session properly with an `at_exit` method.
>>
>> More info here: 
>> https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Hooks#global-hooks
>>
>> Personally I don't recommend running your features that way.  Can I ask 
>> why you need to do it this way?
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 8:32:35 AM UTC-6, 江南 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using Watir Ruby + Cucumber for my testing. 
>>>
>>> Can you tell me how to run two feature files in one web session?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
> That's where (in the env.rb file) I normally create the browser object 
> when using Cucumber.. 
>
> Performance wise that is highly preferable to creating and destroying a 
> browser instance for each scenario, which can add quite a bit of overhead 
> to your tests.  You may want a step that clears cookies, or loads a 
> standard cookie for tests where that can matter, then include that as 
> needed to simulate a 'clean-start' on the browser when required.
>
> Unless you want to type out a really long command line with each feature 
> file specified, using Tags is generally the easiest way I have found to 
> have cucumber execute multiple scenarios from multiple feature files.  
>

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