How to ignore / skip the open / close browser steps?

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You can set up test listeners that run before or after test suite / test case. Please take a look here: https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/test-listeners-test-hooks.html#visualized-workflow.

So you can do something like this:

@BeforeTestCase
def yourBeforeListener(TestCaseContext testCaseContext){
     WebUI.openBrowser('your-url.com')
}
@AfterTestCase
def yourAfterListener(TestCaseContext testCaseContext){
     WebUI.closeBrowser()
}