Feature Request: Authenticate Programmatically

[risapisa]

Hello WDI5 colleagues,

I have a request to bypass the given wdi5:authentication setup from the configuration file, and instead let a user login via their chosen authentication provider (i.e. BTP) programmatically, within the test suite itself.

In UIVeri5, we do this by calling a helper function to directly logon to the BTP Launchpad from the 'beforeAll' hook in a test:

iLoginToTheLaunchpad: (oLaunchpad) => {
    browser.get(oLaunchpad.url + sLaunchpadHomePath, {
        auth: {
            'sapcloud-form': {
                userFieldSelector: 'input[id="j_username"]',
                passFieldSelector: 'input[id="j_password"]',
                logonButtonSelector: 'button[id="logOnFormSubmit"]',
                user: oLaunchpad.user,
                pass: oLaunchpad.password
            }
        }
    });
}

In the UIVeri5 configuration file, we do not provide logon credentials. Instead we provide the credentials from an environment-variables Javascript file which is read in the tests.

Is this something that could be provided in WDI5 as well?