How do I run a PHPUnit Selenium test without having a new browser window run for each function?

Question

I am trying to run a selenium test case using PHPUnit. And the first thing I do is trying the login function, this works perfect but then I want to run a function to check i

Answer 1

To share browser sessions in Selenium2TestCase, you must set sessionStrategy => 'shared' in your initial browser setup:

public static $browsers = array(
    array(
        '...
        'browserName' => 'iexplorer',
        'sessionStrategy' => 'shared',
        ...
    )
);

The alternative (default) is 'isolated'.