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axx run

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Run Gherkin scenarios against your services.

Axx starts the applications declared in axx.yaml (only those needed by the selected scenarios when active.enabled is set), waits until they are ready, runs scenarios in parallel, stops the services and runs their cleanups.

Select scenarios with paths (features/x.feature:14 selects the scenario on line 14, or the scenario containing that step line), –tags and –name. –shard 1/3 runs a third of what they select, for CI’s runners to share a run: every third scenario, in their files’ and lines’ order, from the first; 2/3 and 3/3 run the rest.

Exit codes: 0 passed, 1 failures, 2 usage/config, 3 undefined/ambiguous steps, 4 a service failed to start, 130 interrupted.

Usage:
axx run [paths[:line]...] [flags]
Examples:
axx run
axx run features/register-parcels.feature:17
axx run --tags "@smoke and not @wip" --format junit:build/axx/junit.xml
axx run --shard 2/3 # one of three runners: a third of the scenarios
axx run --attach api # you run the api from your IDE; axx waits for it
axx run --debug=api # start api with its debug command
axx run --debug-steps features/register-parcels.feature:17 # stop at breakpoints in step code
axx run features/shop-portal.feature --pause-at features/shop-portal.feature:24 # pause before that step, where packs can show it
Flags:
--attach strings services you run yourself; axx waits for their readiness instead of starting them
--debug string[="*"] start services with their debug command (all, or a comma-separated list)
--debug-steps string[="2345"] run under Delve so a Go debugger can stop at breakpoints in step code (port, default 2345)
-D, --define stringArray set a property for ${sys:name}, e.g. -D local.host=docker
--dry-run match steps without executing them or starting services
--fail-fast stop scheduling scenarios after the first failure
-f, --format stringArray reporter NAME or NAME:FILE (repeatable): pretty, progress, compact, junit, messages, cucumber-json, html, agent, teamcity
-h, --help help for run
-n, --name stringArray only scenarios whose name matches this regular expression (repeatable)
--no-start do not start, stop or clean up any service
--order string scenario order: "defined" or "random[:seed]"
--pause-at stringArray pause before the step at this file:line, with no timeouts, for the packs that can show a person what the scenario does (repeatable)
--profile string apply profiles.<name> / axx.<name>.yaml, several comma-separated in order, like watch,ios (env: AXX_PROFILE)
--rerun-file string write failed scenario locations (file:line) to this file
--set stringArray set a key of axx.yaml for this run, over its files and profiles, e.g. --set run.workers=1 or --set packs.<pack>.<key>=value
--shard string run shard i of n ("i/n", from 1) of the selected scenarios: every nth, in their files' and lines' order
--slowdown string pause after each action of a watched run, e.g. "500ms" (run.slowdown)
-t, --tags string tag expression, e.g. "@smoke and not @wip"
--watch show what the scenarios do as they do it: browsers and devices in their windows, one scenario at a time unless --workers says otherwise (run.watch)
-w, --workers int parallel scenarios (default: run.workers, or number of CPUs)
Global Flags:
--compact print only what matters (auto-enabled for coding agents)
-c, --config string path to axx.yaml (default: search upward from the working directory)
--json emit machine-readable JSON (stable envelope)
--no-color disable colored output
-v, --verbose count increase log verbosity (-v, -vv)