Separate AXE specs - #3102
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These are among our slowest tests, and barely change. Switching this to run by default on our infrastructure and not as part of local development where the tests are slowest to run.
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What problem does this pull request solve?
Specs are like 7-11 minutes to run on local machines (even on snappy new MBPs it's ~5mins at best)
Taken the strategy of cutting out from running on local dev the AXE specs as we don't really touch these much.
This saves us between 20 to 60 seconds (whereas other strategies I tried would save about 10 seconds)
Trello card: https://trello.com/c/kg2N9Zpu/3217-timebox-1-day-speed-up-forms-admin-tests
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