Pytest
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Testmo works with any test automation tool, including the popular pytest unit testing framework for Python. This quickstart guide provides an overview of how to report pytest test automation results to Testmo.
Pytest comes with full support for generating JUnit-style XML files, which has become a standard format to exchange test results between tools.
This will run your tests with Pytest and automatically write all test results to an XML file in the results
directory. You can also configure a different directory or set various options in your Pytest config file. You can learn more about all the available options and Pytest's JUnit support in the Pytest documentation.
To submit your test results to Testmo, you simply use our cross-platform testmo
CLI tool. The CLI tool is distributed as an NPM package and is easy to install on any system. Simply install our official @testmo/testmo-cli
NPM package:
We can now send the Pytest test results to Testmo. To do this, make sure to generate an API key in Testmo from your profile page. The API key is used to authenticate with Testmo to send the results. We can then use the testmo
CLI tool so submit our results (note that we first set the TESTMO_TOKEN
variable, which the tool expects):
That's it! 🎉 This will automatically analyze the XML result file, create a new test run in Testmo, submit all tests & results and mark the run as completed. There's no need to manually create any tests, map tests or IDs or build any custom API code. Everything is handled automatically for you.
In the above example, we first launched Pytest to generate the XML file and then used our CLI tool to submit the results in a second step. As an improvement to the above example, we can ask our CLI tool to launch Pytest (testmo
then starts and waits for Pytest to finish). This has the following additional benefits:
a) Capture full console output and send it to Testmo b) Accurately measure test times c) Record the Pytest exit code
Testmo also supports additional custom fields for test runs, threads and tests. You can learn more here:
Use Pytest's record_property
fixture to add additional properties to the XML file for individual tests. Testmo will automatically read these properties from the XML file and submit these as fields to Testmo. Testmo supports many automation field types including strings, links, rich HTML, steps and attachment links.
Now that you are familiar with submitting your Pytest test results to Testmo, you might also find the following additional examples, topics and references useful for more advanced workflows.