Python unittests in Jenkins?

Question

How do you get Jenkins to execute python unittest cases? Is it possible to JUnit style XML output from the builtin unittest package?

Answer 1

sample tests:

tests.py:

# tests.py

import random
try:
    import unittest2 as unittest
except ImportError:
    import unittest

class SimpleTest(unittest.TestCase):
    @unittest.skip("demonstrating skipping")
    def test_skipped(self):
        self.fail("shouldn't happen")

    def test_pass(self):
        self.assertEqual(10, 7 + 3)

    def test_fail(self):
        self.assertEqual(11, 7 + 3)

JUnit with pytest

run the tests with:

py.test --junitxml results.xml tests.py

results.xml:

    
        self = <tests.SimpleTest testMethod=test_fail>

    def test_fail(self):
>       self.assertEqual(11, 7 + 3)
E       AssertionError: 11 != 10

tests.py:16: AssertionError
    
    
    
        /home/damien/test-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_pytest/unittest.py:119: Skipped: demonstrating skipping
    

JUnit with nose

run the tests with:

nosetests --with-xunit

nosetests.xml:

JUnit with nose2

You would need to use the nose2.plugins.junitxml plugin. You can configure nose2 with a config file like you would normally do, or with the --plugin command-line option.

run the tests with:

nose2 --plugin nose2.plugins.junitxml --junit-xml tests

nose2-junit.xml:

  
    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/damien/Work/test2/tests.py", line 18, in test_fail
    self.assertEqual(11, 7 + 3)
AssertionError: 11 != 10

  
  
  
    
  

JUnit with unittest-xml-reporting

Append the following to tests.py

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import xmlrunner
    unittest.main(testRunner=xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(output='test-reports'))

run the tests with:

python tests.py

test-reports/TEST-SimpleTest-20131001140629.xml: