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

You can install the unittest-xml-reporting package to add a test runner that generates XML to the built-in unittest.

We use pytest, which has XML output built in (it's a command line option).

Either way, executing the unit tests can be done by running a shell command.