GitHub Actions completes job as success even it receives non-zero exit code

I made my test.bat to be executed from GitHub Actions. The issue I have is that GitHub Actions completes job as success even it receives non-zero exit code from the test.bat.

Here is the YAML file for GitHub Actions.

jobs: 
  run_test:
    runs-on: [self-hosted,Windows]
    steps: 
    - run: ./test.bat

Here is the test.bat file that executes test.

REM This runs test and returns non-zero exit code when test fails.
test.exe -fail     

REM Now, assume test failed, and it retruns exit code 4.
echo %error_level%

Now, GitHub Actions completes the job as success even it receves non-zero exit code (which is 4).

If I remove echo %error_level% then GitHub Action completes the job as fail, properly.

Why?

>Solution :

The echo command succeeds sucessfully and returns an exit code of 0.

Make sure you either capture the ERRORLEVEL:

REM This runs test and returns non-zero exit code when test fails.
test.exe -fail     
set return_code=%ERRORLEVEL%
REM Now, assume test failed, and it returns exit code 4.
echo %return_code%
exit %return_code%

Or do an if statement and return your own exit code.

REM This runs test and returns non-zero exit code when test fails.
test.exe -fail

IF NOT %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (
    echo %ERRORLEVEL%
    exit 1  
)