Same here. I think a better approach would be a new flag. Perhaps "--append-to-junitxml"?
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> wrote: > Surely some depend on the expectation to overwrite. Most of our tests run > under Jenkins where the junitxml file is left around to be processed by > Jenkins later. I believe that's the expected behavior for most testing > frameworks that generate jUnit XML. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pytest-dev [mailto:pytest-dev- > > bounces+jaraco=jaraco....@python.org] On Behalf Of > > achart...@fastmail.fm > > Sent: Tuesday, 21 January, 2014 17:09 > > To: pytest-dev@python.org > > Subject: [pytest-dev] Changing the behavior of --junitxml > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to propose a change to the behavior of the --junitxml > option. > > > > Currently, if the same XML file path is specified for multiple > invocations of > > pytest, the file is overwritten. For our use case, we would like the > ability to > > append new test results to an existing JUnit XML file so we don't lose > > previous results. This is important for us, as we are automating calls > to pytest > > and would like to avoid the need to create a consolidated JUnit XML > results > > file ourselves (i.e., by specifying a different argument to --junitxml > for each > > invocation and then consolidating all the separate XML files into a > single one > > for consumption by our tool). > > > > Is this behavior change something that could be considered for the next > > release of pytest? If other pytest users are relying on the existing > overwriting > > behavior of --junitxml, perhaps another pytest option could be added to > > toggle between overwrite and append behavior. > > > > Best, > > > > Alfonso > > _______________________________________________ > > Pytest-dev mailing list > > Pytest-dev@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev > _______________________________________________ > Pytest-dev mailing list > Pytest-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev >
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