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

Name of current test can be retrieved with unittest.TestCase.id() method. So in tearDown you can check self.id().

Example shows how to:

• find if current test has error or failure in errors or failures list
• print test id with PASS or FAIL or EXCEPTION

Tested example here works with @scoffey 's nice example.

def tearDown(self):
    result = "PASS"
    #### find and show result for current test
    # I did not find any nicer/neater way of comparing self.id() with test id stored in errors or failures lists :-7
    id = str(self.id()).split('.')[-1]
    # id() e.g. tup[0]:<__main__.MyTest testMethod=test_onePlusNoneIsNone>
    #           str(tup[0]):"test_onePlusOneEqualsThree (__main__.MyTest)"
    #           str(self.id()) = __main__.MyTest.test_onePlusNoneIsNone
    for tup in self.currentResult.failures:
        if str(tup[0]).startswith(id):
            print ' test %s failure:%s' % (self.id(), tup[1])
            ## DO TEST FAIL ACTION HERE
            result = "FAIL"
    for tup in self.currentResult.errors:
        if str(tup[0]).startswith(id):
            print ' test %s error:%s' % (self.id(), tup[1])
            ## DO TEST EXCEPTION ACTION HERE
            result = "EXCEPTION"

    print "Test:%s Result:%s" % (self.id(), result)

example of result:

python run_scripts/tut2.py 2>&1 
E test __main__.MyTest.test_onePlusNoneIsNone error:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_scripts/tut2.py", line 80, in test_onePlusNoneIsNone
    self.assertTrue(1 + None is None) # raises TypeError
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'NoneType'

Test:__main__.MyTest.test_onePlusNoneIsNone Result:EXCEPTION
F test __main__.MyTest.test_onePlusOneEqualsThree failure:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_scripts/tut2.py", line 77, in test_onePlusOneEqualsThree
    self.assertTrue(1 + 1 == 3) # fails
AssertionError: False is not true

Test:__main__.MyTest.test_onePlusOneEqualsThree Result:FAIL
Test:__main__.MyTest.test_onePlusOneEqualsTwo Result:PASS
.
======================================================================
ERROR: test_onePlusNoneIsNone (__main__.MyTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_scripts/tut2.py", line 80, in test_onePlusNoneIsNone
    self.assertTrue(1 + None is None) # raises TypeError
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'NoneType'

======================================================================
FAIL: test_onePlusOneEqualsThree (__main__.MyTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_scripts/tut2.py", line 77, in test_onePlusOneEqualsThree
     self.assertTrue(1 + 1 == 3) # fails
AssertionError: False is not true

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Ran 3 tests in 0.001s

FAILED (failures=1, errors=1)