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What is the issue?

While using the Run.PassThru and Run.Exit configuration options, a Pester object is unexpectedly dropped to the output stream if an exception is raised. The object is not in the output stream if an exception is not raised.

See screenshot below:

• test.ps1 contains some blocks with a single test. throw is used in BeforeAll but it can be used in any block to reproduce the issue
• The test script file is called from testrun.ps1 and the output should be assigned to $r within the scope of the script file
• $r isn't dropped to the output stream, however we can see a Pester output object in the console which called testun.ps1

In order to reproduce, both PassThru and Exit must be true.

test.ps1

Describe 'Some test' {

    BeforeAll {
        Write-Host 'hello world from beforeall'
        throw 'some error'
    }

    AfterAll { 
        Write-Host 'hello world from afterall'
    }

    it 'should be true' {
        throw 'some error'
        Write-Host 'within a test'
        $true | Should -Be $true
    }
}

testrun.ps1

$Container = New-PesterContainer -Path 'C:\path\to\test.ps1'

$Configuration = New-PesterConfiguration -Hashtable @{
    Run = @{
        PassThru = $true
        Exit = $true
        Container = $Container
        SkipRemainingOnFailure = 'Container'
    }
    Output = @{
        Verbosity = 'None'
    }
    TestResult = @{
        Enabled = $false
        TestSuitName = 'abc'
    }
}

$r = Invoke-Pester -Configuration $Configuration

Expected Behavior

I expected to not see any output in the given code example.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create test.ps1 with the above code
2. Create testrun.ps1 with the above code and update line 1 for path to test.ps1
3. Call testrun.ps1

Describe your environment

Pester version     : 5.3.1 C:\Users\adamp\OneDrive - Adam Cook\Documents\PowerShell\Modules\Pester\5.3.1\Pester.psm1
PowerShell version : 7.3.2
OS version         : Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0

Possible Solution?

@fflaten suggests is discord to:

We should likely ignore passthru when run.exit is set and there is a failed test. It's returned as text so it wouldn't provide anything more than the normal colored output