Lifecycle

Steps for stopping and starting the app and its containers mid-scenario

Multi-line Content

Steps ending with : accept multi-line content using Gherkin's docstring syntax ("""). See examples below each section.

App

Step	Description
"lifecycle" restarts the app	Stop the app and start it again, waiting until it is ready, as a deploy or a crash does
"lifecycle" restarts the app with env:	Restart the app with these environment variables changed, for the rest of the scenario, e.g. a boundary a few seconds away
"lifecycle" stops the app	Stop the app, as when it crashes
"lifecycle" starts the app	Start the stopped app and wait until it is ready

Examples

Restart the app with these environment variables changed, for the rest of the scenario, e.g. a boundary a few seconds away:

"lifecycle" restarts the app with env:
  | name             | value |
  | SESSION_BOUNDARY | 10s   |

Containers

Step	Description
"lifecycle" stops container "postgres"	Stop a container, as when the service it runs goes down. It keeps its state and its host ports
"lifecycle" starts container "postgres"	Start a stopped container on the same address and wait until it is ready
"lifecycle" restarts container "postgres"	Stop a container and start it again, as a failover does
"lifecycle" pauses container "rabbitmq"	Freeze a container: connections stay open and nothing answers, as with a hung service or a network partition
"lifecycle" unpauses container "rabbitmq"	Resume a paused container