Background fails, yet my build succeeds

[SirLenz0rlot]

Hi all.

I've already asked my question somewhere else, but I would like to
hear your thoughts on it:

I was wondering about something, cucumber returns an exit code 0
(which means "ok" as far as i know) when a Background fails.

Now failing steps shouldn't probably be in the Background (at best in
a 'before'-hook i guess??). But does anybody know with what philosophy
it returns this exit code? Is it a bug or a feature?

The original question with a code example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8559694/cucumber-background-fails-still-exits-with-code-0/8563041

[Matt Wynne]

That is a bug. If anything fails, Cucumber should return a non-zero exit status.

cheers,
Matt

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[SirLenz0rlot]

Thanks for your response.
Is this a known bug?

I couldn't find one in the issue list similar, so I've made a new one

On Dec 21, 12:37 pm, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:59, SirLenz0rlot wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
>
> > I've already asked my question somewhere else, but I would like to
> > hear your thoughts on it:
>
> > I was wondering about something, cucumber returns an exit code 0
> > (which means "ok" as far as i know) when a Background fails.
>
> > Now failing steps shouldn't probably be in the Background (at best in
> > a 'before'-hook i guess??). But does anybody know with what philosophy
> > it returns this exit code? Is it a bug or a feature?
>
> > The original question with a code example

> >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8559694/cucumber-background-fails-...