Pytest reporting in JUnit XML format

• e.g. for Jenkins integration
• See usage

pytest --junitxml report.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><testsuites name="pytest tests"><testsuite name="pytest" errors="0" failures="1" skipped="1" tests="5" time="0.128" timestamp="2026-03-19T16:57:19.305310+01:00" hostname="code-maven"><testcase classname="books.python-testing.src.examples.pytest.reporting.test_colors" name="test_blue" time="0.001" /><testcase classname="books.python-testing.src.examples.pytest.reporting.test_colors" name="test_red" time="0.001"><failure message="assert 1 == 2">def test_red():
&gt;       assert 1 == 2
E       assert 1 == 2

test_colors.py:7: AssertionError</failure></testcase><testcase classname="books.python-testing.src.examples.pytest.reporting.test_colors" name="test_purple" time="0.000"><skipped type="pytest.skip" message="So we can show skip reporting">/home/gabor/github/code-maven.com/python.code-maven.com/books/python-testing/src/examples/pytest/reporting/test_colors.py:9: So we can show skip reporting</skipped></testcase><testcase classname="books.python-testing.src.examples.pytest.reporting.test_colors" name="test_orange" time="0.000" /><testcase classname="books.python-testing.src.examples.pytest.reporting.test_colors" name="test_green" time="0.000" /></testsuite></testsuites>

To make the XML more human-readable:

cat report.xml | python -c 'import sys;import xml.dom.minidom;s=sys.stdin.read();print(xml.dom.minidom.parseString(s).toprettyxml())'