Question

In a Jenkins job, I have a windows batch Command build step, which runs a test with phantomJS, like this:

How can I make the job fail, if inside smokeTest.js I exit phantom with an error, like this:

phantomJS.exit(1)

Answer 1

Jenkins considers a job as “failed” if the return-code of any command-block
(like that ‘ExecuteWindows batch command’ above) is non-zero.

If it does not work for you in this case, it is probably because ‘phantomjs.exe’ returns ‘0’ in any case
(can confirm this by echo-ing the ERRORLEVEL just after that command: ECHO %ERRORLEVEL% ).

If this is the case (i.e.: it returns ‘0’ even when fails), you can handle it this way:

• Print a clear error-message to the console (or STDOUT – something that will show in the log of the Job)
• Use the Text-finder Plugin to catch that error-message and mark the build as ‘Failed’.