Log user in on the backend during login steps

[jhedstrom]

Many modules, and services utilize the current_user service for determining ownership, etc. When these hooks or services are called from the backend (for instance, during Given I am viewing my node...), current_user will be the anonymous user on the backend.

It would be good to have the login and logout steps log the user in on the backend (for the Drupal driver).

[claudiu-cristea]

I wonder if we can avoid at all logging in via the form and do a direct login via API. That would be a big performance improvement as we don't need to test on each login the form. But I don't see a way to do that.