# gauge mit Homebrew, chocolatey, Nix, scoop, winget installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gauge in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gauge
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gauge
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gauge
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ga/gauge/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install gauge
```

  Evidenz: Chocolatey community package catalog: gauge from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','fusioninventory-agent'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/gauge
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/gauge.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Gauge.Gauge -e
```

  Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: Gauge.Gauge from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gauge
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.6.35
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Test automation tool that supports executable documentation
- **Homepage:** <https://gauge.org>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/getgauge/gauge>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-23T12:10:32Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gauge (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.6.35
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Gauge is an open-source test automation framework for writing acceptance tests as executable documentation. Its central idea is to keep specifications readable in Markdown while binding steps to code in common programming languages.

### Projektgeschichte

Gauge was built at ThoughtWorks to reduce the design overhead and maintenance burden of functional and acceptance test suites. The official project post introducing Gauge 1.0 describes a move from verbose test code toward reusable, refactorable steps written in business-readable text.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Gauge gained adoption among teams that wanted acceptance tests without Cucumber-style BDD ceremony. The official site and docs emphasize cross-platform use, CI/CD integration, language runners, IDE support, reports, and plugins. The README notes that official sponsorship ended in 2021 and that the project moved toward community-driven maintenance.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use begins with `gauge init` for a language such as JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, or C#, followed by Markdown specifications under a project and `gauge run` to execute them. Gauge supports reusable steps, concepts, data-driven tests, plugins, reports, and language-server based editor features.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Gauge is package-manager interesting because the core CLI is only the entry point: useful installations often combine the main binary with language runners, reports, and IDE plugins. It is a good example of a Go command-line tool distributed as a package while delegating much of its runtime behavior to a plugin ecosystem.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: The official Gauge repository was created.
- 2018: Gauge 1.0 was presented in the official project blog.
- 2021: Official sponsorship ended, and the README described a shift to community-driven maintenance.
- 2020s: Gauge continues to document Markdown specifications, plugins, language runners, and editor integrations.

### Related projects

- Gauge is closely related to its official language runners, report plugins, IDE plugins, and Taiko, which the Gauge site presents as a companion for browser automation.

### Quellen

- <https://docs.gauge.org/>
- <https://docs.gauge.org/overview.html>
- <https://gauge.org/>
- <https://gauge.org/2018/05/15/why-we-built-gauge/>
- <https://gauge.org/plugins/>
- <https://github.com/getgauge/gauge>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für gauge wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.gauge/config/gauge.properties, <project_root>/env/default/default.properties, <project_root>/env/default/<language>.properties, <project_root>/manifest.json
- Windows: %APPDATA%\gauge\config\gauge.properties, <project_root>\env\default\default.properties, <project_root>\env\default\<language>.properties, <project_root>\manifest.json
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - gauge: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ga/gauge/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - gauge: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: gauge from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','fusioninventory-agent'
- Scoop - main/gauge: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/gauge.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Gauge.Gauge: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Gauge.Gauge from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gauge.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gauge.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
