WEBINARLive webinar: Terraform in Buddy, Oct 21st.Terraform: plan, approve, apply with state in Buddy. Live on October 21st.Save your seat

bdy tests

View as Markdown
$bdy tests [options] [command]

Manage unit tests and visual regression (Storybook, URL captures, test runners)

OPTIONS
--context <name>
Connection and scope context: default, git, link or a saved name. Overrides the globally active context for this invocation.
--examples
Show only examples; with this flag --format accepts text, json or jsonl
--verbose
Show REST API requests, responses, timing and retries on stderr
-h, --help
display help for command
AVAILABLE COMMANDS
Manage visual regression testing across Storybook, URL captures, and test runners
Create a visual test session from an explicit URL list, a URLs file, or a sitemap
Manage unit testing (JUnit XML report uploads, suite linking)

Documentation for bdy v1.25.20

Last modified on Oct 14, 2026

Examples

Upload junit xml report
bdy tests unit upload "reports/**/*.xml" --format junit-xml$
Preview which files would be uploaded without sending
bdy tests unit upload "reports/**/*.xml" --format junit-xml --dryRun$
Interactively link current directory to a unit test suite
bdy tests unit link$
Link non-interactively to a specific suite
bdy tests unit link -w workspace -p project -s suite-identifier$
Install the resource-discovery browser (needed by `session create` unless --skipDiscovery)
bdy tests visual setup$
Upload a built Storybook to the linked visual test suite
bdy tests visual upload ./storybook-static$
Interactively link current directory to a visual test suite
bdy tests visual link$
Link non-interactively to a specific suite
bdy tests visual link -w workspace -p project -s suite-identifier$
Run your test command with the visual-test plugin server attached
bdy tests visual session create "npm test"$
Skip resource discovery (debugging or asset-free pages)
bdy tests visual session create "npm test" --skipDiscovery$
Send snapshots progressively (quicker review during long runs)
bdy tests visual session create "npm test" --oneByOne$
One runner in a parallel session (every runner must share the same $SNAPSHOTS_BUILD_ID)
bdy tests visual session create "npm test" --parallel$
Close the session after all parallel runners finished (build id read from $SNAPSHOTS_BUILD_ID)
bdy tests visual session close$
Capture an explicit list of urls
bdy tests capture --urls "https://example.com,https://example.com/about"$
Capture from a sitemap and follow links
bdy tests capture --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml --follow$
Capture from a urls file and ignore a globbed selector
bdy tests capture --urlsFile ./urls.txt --ignore "header>.banner"$