[TIP] skipped testcases not reported in JUnit XML

[holger krekel]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:22 +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:57 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> >
> > Heh, I wouldn't mind a python testing related standard - the java related
> > junitxml stuff is too minimal IMO.  And then get someone to improve
> > Jenkins to use the information.
> 
> Do you mean as a dialect of junit's xml representation, or a totally
> different thing? If the former, I'd be extremely happy to make my
> junitxml module reusable by any python test tool that wants to output
> (or parse, though there isn't a parser in it today) such a dialect.
> Its already reusable by anything that speaks to unittest.TestResult
> (or the enhanced testtools.TestResult contract) - but there are
> probably things we can do to make it easier for py.test and other non
> unittest test frameworks to reuse the code (rather than embedding your
> own emitter into py.test).

Do you have a description/spec for the XML you produce?
Not sure sharing code is worth the effort.

> If you meant the latter, let me suggest subunit :)

I indeed meant making Jenkins use / show the information 
which probably means touching and writing Java code :)

best,
holger