Nose-Subunit

This nose plugin changes the default output to subunit format. This can be used along with buildbot to have better reports.

Installation

nose-subunit apparently depends on both nosetests and subunit.

The following command would install nose-subunit and all its dependencies:

    easy_install nose-subunit

nose-subunit can be also be downloaded manually from pypi or github

Usage

Enable this plugin with --with-subunit. This plugin is known to work with following builtin nose plugins:

• skip plugin
• multiprocess plugin
• failuredetail plugin
• stopOnFailure builtin feature (enabled by -x/--stop)
• testid plugin

The following plugins are known to conflict with subunit plugin:

• collectonly plugin: If you are only collecting tests, you probably don’t care about the output

Nose plugins not mentioned here are not tested by the author. Please feel free to report your experience about using nose-subunit with other nose plugins.

Source Repository and UnitTest

http://github.com/liucougar/nose-subunit

under the root of nose-subunit, run:

    nosetests --exe