Cucumber test passed, but jenkins failed - jenkins

Question

I have a lots of tests on several server. I use Jenkins to manage all of them.
On one server (Slave Windows), when I launch a test in cmd, I got something like :
c:/tests/cucumber --tag #dev -p ie
...
1 scenarios (1 passed)
12 steps (12 passed)
0m31.761s
echo %errorlevel%
0
No error in the tests, and cucumber seems good.
When jenkins launch exactly the same tests, I get :
c:/jenkins_folder/cucumber --tag #dev -p ie
...
1 scenarios (1 passed)
12 steps (12 passed)
0m28.453s
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE
The test passed, but is marked failed by jenkins.
The command "echo %errorlevel%" is aborted : the job fail before this point.
The same job played on another slave work.
Same problem with all profile and all tags.
Same problem when I replace profile by real value
I don't use the --strict flag
Jenkins, plugins : all up-to-date
Code of the windows batch :
cd /test8folder
cucumber --tag #dev -p ie
echo %errorlevel%
What did I missed ?

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the configuration.
The fact that you get Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure after your cucumber command without actually seeing the echo %errorlevel% executed only reaffirms that there was an error in cucumber (more on that later).
However, in Execute Windows Batch Command, even a command in error would not exit the batch script (unlike Jenkins's default Execute Shell implementation). You should be seeing at least some exit code, 0, 1, or anything.
The only time this would happen is if something within your buildstep executed exit /b [exit_code_num]. I don't know "cucumber", but if that is in-fact a cucubmer.bat and inside there is an exit /b statement, this is what's causing it drop out of the buildstep without continuing.
Solution
You can use call cucumber [whateverparams] so that even when it quits with exit /b, the control will return to the calling process, the Execute Windows Batch command script.
Try that first. And you will probably see that your echo %errorlevel% will probably return a non-zero value when executed under Jenkins, but at least you will see it now.
Now, as for why it succeeds on command prompt, but fails within Jenkins, there could be a lot of reasons, the most common one being environment variables and paths. We can tackle that later once we actually see the exit code of cucumber. You also said it worked on another node: even more reason to believe this is an environment issue, maybe a non-existent folder...
Edit:
The reason that even "successful" test execution exits the calling script is because exit /b 0 would still quit the calling script, even though cucumber exited with "success" 0