feat: allow configuring the CLI to error on no matching tests

packages/cli/e2e/__tests__/trigger.spec.ts

@@ -65,4 +65,20 @@ describe('trigger', () => {
     expect(result.stdout).toContain('No matching checks were found.')
     expect(result.status).toBe(0)
   })
+
+  test('Should return code 1 when no checks match and the fail-on-no-match flag is set', async () => {
+    const result = await runChecklyCli({
+      args: [
+        'trigger',
+        '--tags',
+        'no-checks-match-this-tag',
+        '--fail-on-no-matching',
+      ],
+      apiKey: config.get('apiKey'),
+      accountId: config.get('accountId'),
+    })
+
+    expect(result.stdout).toContain('No matching checks were found.')
+    expect(result.status).toBe(1)
+  })
 })

packages/cli/src/commands/trigger.ts

@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ export default class Trigger extends AuthCommand {
       description: 'Always show the full logs of the checks.',
       allowNo: true,
     }),
+    'fail-on-no-matching': Flags.boolean({
+      description: 'Exit with a failing status code when there are no matching tests.',
+    }),
     reporter: Flags.string({
       char: 'r',
       description: 'A list of custom reporters for the test output.',
@@ -96,6 +99,7 @@ export default class Trigger extends AuthCommand {
       tags: targetTags,
       timeout,
       verbose: verboseFlag,
+      'fail-on-no-matching': failOnNoMatchingFlag,
       record: shouldRecord,
       reporter: reporterFlag,
       env,
@@ -116,6 +120,7 @@ export default class Trigger extends AuthCommand {
       privateRunLocation,
     })
     const verbose = this.prepareVerboseFlag(verboseFlag, checklyConfig?.cli?.verbose)
+    const failOnNoMatching = this.prepareFailOnNoMatching(failOnNoMatchingFlag, checklyConfig?.cli?.failOnNoMatching)
     const reporterTypes = this.prepareReportersTypes(reporterFlag as ReporterType, checklyConfig?.cli?.reporters)
     const reporters = createReporters(reporterTypes, location, verbose)
     const testRetryStrategy = this.prepareTestRetryStrategy(retries, checklyConfig?.cli?.retries)
@@ -167,6 +172,9 @@ export default class Trigger extends AuthCommand {
       if (err instanceof NoMatchingChecksError) {
         // For consistency with `checkly test`, we log a message and exit with code 0.
         this.log('No matching checks were found.')
+        if (failOnNoMatching) {
+          process.exitCode = 1
+        }
         return
       }
       reporters.forEach(r => r.onError(err))
@@ -221,6 +229,10 @@ export default class Trigger extends AuthCommand {
     return verboseFlag ?? cliVerboseFlag ?? false
   }
 
+  prepareFailOnNoMatching (failOnNoMatchingFlag?: boolean, cliFailOnNoMatchingFlag?: boolean) {
+    return failOnNoMatchingFlag ?? cliFailOnNoMatchingFlag ?? false
+  }
+
   prepareReportersTypes (reporterFlag: ReporterType, cliReporters: ReporterType[] = []): ReporterType[] {
     if (!reporterFlag && !cliReporters.length) {
       return [isCI ? 'ci' : 'list']

packages/cli/src/services/checkly-config-loader.ts

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ export type ChecklyConfig = {
     runLocation?: keyof Region,
     privateRunLocation?: string,
     verbose?: boolean,
+    failOnNoMatching?: boolean,
     reporters?: ReporterType[],
     retries?: number,
   }