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The best way to get started is to run examples and play around with it. Simply, in few minutes you have your working automated test.

Autokin works with NodeJS, and it must be installed first before anything. You can work with the latest or atleast v12. To install you can download from here and choose the correct package for your machine: https://nodejs.org/en/download/​
If you want to maintain cleanliness or organization of your Node versions, please use this version manager for Node: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm​
You can follow installation instructions that can be found on both links. Once you have Node in your system, you can now proceed to the next steps. Enjoy!

To kickstart, let's start by creating a project folder.
mkdir my-autokin-project
Name the folder anything that you see fit. Before proceeding to next step make sure that you are inside the new folder.
cd my-autokin-project

Next, let's install autokin.
npm install autokin
It is assumed that you have your NodeJS environment setup. If you need more guidance on this, please see www.nodejs.org

Autokin comes with a very very simple boilerplate project, which comes with a single scenario where you can build your own on top of it. To generate the project, use the following command:
./node_modules/.bin/autokin --init
This will create the necessary folder structure and sample files.
my-autokin-project
├── features
| ├── support
| ├── steps.js
|
└── first.feature
Let's run the test!

Now, you are ready to go. Run our Autokin test, just follow this command:
./node_modules/.bin/autokin --exec
This will pickup all the Gherkin test with .feature extension file under the features folder. It should have the following output:
./node_modules/.bin/autokin -e
Autokin Test Run
Feature: My Feature > My First Scenario - ✔ Passed
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Test Result Summary
┌────────────┬────────┬───────────┬───────┐
│ Features │ Result │ Scenarios │ Steps │
├────────────┼────────┼───────────┼───────┤
│ My Feature │ --- │ 1 │ 0 │
└────────────┴────────┴───────────┴───────┘
​
┌────────────────────────┬────────┬───────┬────────┬────────┬─────────┬─────────┬───────────┬─────────┐
│ Features / Scenarios │ Result │ Steps │ Passed │ Failed │ Skipped │ Pending │ Ambiguous │ Unknown │
├────────────────────────┴────────┴───────┴────────┴────────┴─────────┴─────────┴───────────┴─────────┤
│ My Feature │
├────────────────────────┬────────┬───────┬────────┬────────┬─────────┬─────────┬───────────┬─────────┤
│ My First Scenario │ --- │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │
└────────────────────────┴────────┴───────┴────────┴────────┴─────────┴─────────┴───────────┴─────────┘

OPTIONS
SHORTKEY
DESCRIPTION
--version
-V
Display version number
--init
-i
Initialised new Autokin project structure
--specs [path]
-s
Specify path location of features, --specs myfeatures
--exec
-e
Execute automation test
--tags [tags]
-t
Use with --exec to specify which tags to run, example:"@autokin"
--junit
-j
Output additional result file in JUnit format
--time
-d
Display duration execution for each steps
--formatter [cucumber-formatter]
-f
Use with --exec to specify custom cucumber formatter
--variable [file-path]
-v
Use with --exec to specify variable set from json file
--html [file-path]
-w
Generate test result in html file format using Autokin HTML Formatter
--help
-h
Output usage in console
--clean
-c
Deletes existing reports and snapshots before running new test.
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