Being able to reset browser history

[quentinus95]

Hello, I'm looking for a solution to be able to validate that my app do not push pages in the browser history. Sadly, I can't find a way to reset it properly before testing.

Current behavior:

I'm currently reading the history length using the following piece of code:

 cy.window().then(window => {
    cy.wrap(window.history.length).should("equal", 2)
})

The main issue with this approach is that browser history is shared between tests. Consequently this test is now dependent of what was run before it.

Desired behavior:

I would expect two possible behaviors:

• the browser history is reset between tests (to me it's a bug that Cypress does not do that by default)
• Cypress provides a cy.clearHistory() method to clear tab history. It can be useful to run it before doing the assertion

Versions

Cypress 3.8.3.

[jennifer-shehane]

Likely should be a part of #686

[jennifer-shehane]

The team has confirmed that this is planned work as part of #686 - will be closing as duplicate.