# validateFixtures (/docs/api/core/functions/validateFixtures)



```ts
function validateFixtures(fixtures, recipe): FixtureProblem[];
```

The portal's stale-Fixture warning, and what the runner refuses to start on.

## Parameters [#parameters]

| Parameter  | Type                                                                                                   |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `fixtures` | [`Fixture`](/docs/api/core/interfaces/Fixture)\<[`Questions`](/docs/api/core/interfaces/Questions)>\[] |
| `recipe`   | [`Recipe`](/docs/api/core/type-aliases/Recipe)                                                         |

## Returns [#returns]

[`FixtureProblem`](/docs/api/core/interfaces/FixtureProblem)\[]