--test & --test-reporter & --test-reporter-destination will swallow error

[himself65]

Version

18,x 20.x, 22

Platform

macos

Subsystem

test_runner

What steps will reproduce the bug?

throw new Error('')

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

No response

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

No response

What do you see instead?

node --test  ./index.js
// Error throw

node --test --test-reporter=lcov --test-reporter-destination=lcov.info  ./index.js
// nothing happened

Additional information

No response

[cjihrig]

This seems like expected behavior that is only specific to the lcov reporter, and has nothing to do with the reporter destination. This is because the lcov reporter's only functionality is to report code coverage information. It might be worth updating the lcov reporter docs to specify that:

• No test results are reported by this reporter.
• This reporter should ideally be used in conjunction with another reporter.

[dfperry5]

You're wanting to see this update in here:

node/doc/api/test.md

Line 503 in 7c3dce0

The tap and spec reporters will print a summary of the coverage statistics.

?

I can take this and open a PR if that's OK?

[himself65]

Thank you

[EliphazBouye]

@cjihrig, @himself65 can you check if my pull request it's ok about this issue #52746