Getting Python's unittest results in a tearDown() method

Question

Is it possible to get the results of a test (i.e. whether all assertions have passed) in a tearDown() method? I\'m running Selenium scripts, and I\'d like to do some reporti

Answer 1

It depends what kind of reporting you'd like to produce.

In case you'd like to do some actions on failure (such as generating a screenshots), instead of using tearDown(), you may achieve that by overriding failureException.

For example:

@property
def failureException(self):
    class MyFailureException(AssertionError):
        def __init__(self_, *args, **kwargs):
            screenshot_dir = 'reports/screenshots'
            if not os.path.exists(screenshot_dir):
                os.makedirs(screenshot_dir)
            self.driver.save_screenshot('{0}/{1}.png'.format(screenshot_dir, self.id()))
            return super(MyFailureException, self_).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    MyFailureException.__name__ = AssertionError.__name__
    return MyFailureException