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Add automatic soft isolation to Session docs #52

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Expand Up @@ -183,10 +183,17 @@ Resetting the Session
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The primary aim for Mink is to provide a single consistent web browsing API
for acceptance tests. But a very important part in testing is isolation.
for acceptance tests. But a very important part in testing is isolation.
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Please don't add trailing whitespaces

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Better yet enable automatic trailing space removal in your editor.

Mink tries to automatically "soft" isolate tests from each other without
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Mink does not do anything automatically. Both reset and stop must be called explicitly

slowing-down test runs with a full driver restart, but in some cases this is not
possible:

Mink provides two very useful methods to isolate tests, which can be used
in your test's ``teardown`` methods:
* Selenium will not allow cookies to be cleared from anything other than
the current domain - so a test that runs across different domains (for
example PayPal's sandbox) cannot be automatically isolated.

So Mink provides two very useful methods to isolate tests, which can be used
in your tests' ``teardown`` methods:

.. code-block:: php

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