Protractor 5.1.1- Chai assertion failure is causing process to exit with error code: 199. No reports are generating after that - protractor

Question

cucumber framework. When a chai assertion is failed, the process is exiting with error code:199. No reports are generated after that.
Protractor - 5.1.1
Here is my updated code,
this.Then(/^I should see process is saved in db$/, function (next) {
var sql = "select * from process where name = ?";
sql = mysql.format(sql, params.flow.procName);
console.log(sql);
dbConn.query(sql, function(err, rows, fields){
if(!err) {
procDbObj = rows;
var procName = procDbObj[0].name;
console.log(rows);
expect(procDbObj[0].name).to.equal(params.flow.procName);
expect(procDbObj[0].description).to.equal(params.flow.procDesc);
expect(procName).to.equal("AABBDCD").and.notify(next);
}
});
});
Below is the error I am seeing when an assertion is failed,
[11:23:59] E/launcher - expected 'Auto_proc_2h5c83' to equal 'AABBDCD'
[11:23:59] E/launcher - AssertionError: expected 'Auto_proc_2h5c83' to equal 'AABBDCD'
at Query._callback (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\features\step_definitions\E2E_step_definition.js:64:34)
at Query.Sequence.end (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\protocol\sequences\Sequence.js:86:24)
at Query._handleFinalResultPacket (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\protocol\sequences\Query.js:137:8)
at Query.EofPacket (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\protocol\sequences\Query.js:121:8)
at Protocol._parsePacket (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\protocol\Protocol.js:280:23)
at Parser.write (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\protocol\Parser.js:75:12)
at Protocol.write (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\protocol\Protocol.js:39:16)
at Socket. (C:\Users\panubrolu\workspace\ProtractorCucumber\node_modules\mysql\lib\Connection.js:103:28)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:191:7)
[11:23:59] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199
Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think there are a few problems in your code.
1: It the db-query a Promise? You are using Callback (next) and Promises ('return') at the same time. If it is a Promise then the code should be something like this
this.Then(/^I should see process is saved in db$/, function () {
var sql = "select * from process where name = ?";
sql = mysql.format(sql, params.flow.procName);
console.log(sql);
return dbConn.query(sql, function(err, rows, fields){
if(!err) {
procDbObj = rows;
var procName = procDbObj[0].name;
console.log(rows);
expect(procDbObj[0].name).to.eventually.equal(params.flow.procName);
expect(procDbObj[0].description).to.eventually.equal(params.flow.procDesc);
} else {
return Promise.reject('Query Failed, error = ' + err);
}
});
});
2: If it is a promise, did you also use chai and chai-as-promised?
3: If you are using a callback, then you should 'notify' Cucumber that the scenario is done, you can do that with expect('foo').to.equal('bar').and.notify(next);
4: You don't have a promise / callback when the query fails, see the Promise.reject('message') in the first point
Hope this will give you some info for debugging you problem.