Display python unittest results in nice, tabular form

Question

I am writing a Pythonic tool which validates the correctness of a certain system. Each validation is written as a Python unittest, and the report looks like:

Answer 1

This is not exactly what you are asking, but there are several options for having a readable test output there:

• HTMLTestRunner generates easy to use HTML test reports in a tabular form. Here's a sample report.
• nose-html-output plugin for nose test runner
• unittest-xml-reporting - PyUnit-based test runner with JUnit like XML reporting
• nose with --with-xunit option will produce junit xml style reports that are easy to read and convert

Also see:

• How to produce html unit test output in Python?
• Python Unittest Reporting in HTML
• unittest colored output (coloring the output can make results readable too)

If you want to see test results in a tabular form in the console anyway, I think that a good idea would be to write your own nose plugin or test runner based on unittest.TestProgram as it was done in HTMLTestRunner.

Hope that helps.