# Tests fail but build is still "success"

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/tests-fail-but-build-is-still-success/10341>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 13, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/tests-fail-but-build-is-still-success/10341 "2017-02-13T22:08:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jchamberlain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jchamberlain](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/jchamberlain)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/tests-fail-but-build-is-still-success/10341/1 "2017-02-13T22:08:16Z")

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Hello,

We’ve been using docker-compose to run our tests since switching to CircleCI a year ago. It’s always returned the expected non-zero exit code on failure…until last week. Starting last week, all failing tests have been marked as “success”, and we only realized that today. CircleCI now reports “Exit Code: 0” when the tests fail.

The line that runs our tests is:

```auto
docker-compose -f docker-compose.test.yml run --name=phpunit --no-deps php php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

```

It was last changed 2/15/2016.

Can someone look into this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/tests-fail-but-build-is-still-success/10341/2 "2018-06-18T11:34:35Z")

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Closed on June 18, 2018, 11:34am UTC