# Bail early with the Bun test runner (/docs/guides/test/bail)

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Related: [Run your tests with the Bun test runner](/docs/guides/test/run-tests.md), [Run tests in watch mode with Bun](/docs/guides/test/watch-mode.md), [Migrate from Jest to Bun's test runner](/docs/guides/test/migrate-from-jest.md), [Mock functions in `bun test`](/docs/guides/test/mock-functions.md), [Spy on methods in `bun test`](/docs/guides/test/spy-on.md), [Set the system time in Bun's test runner](/docs/guides/test/mock-clock.md)

Use the `--bail` flag to abort a test run after the first failure, so a continuous integration run fails as early as possible.

```sh terminal icon="terminal"
bun test --bail
```

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To bail after a certain number of failures, pass a number after the flag.

```sh terminal icon="terminal"
# bail after 10 failures
bun test --bail=10
```

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See [`bun test`](/test).