python nose framework: A plugin to display results in a human friendly format

Question

Any format which is targeted for humans (.html, .doc, whatever) would be good. I cannot find any plugin that provides it All I found was XUNIT or XML output..

Answer 1

I don't know of a stand-alone visualization tool, but Hudson can graph your test and coverage results. If there's a failure, it will list the problems on a web page with hyperlinks to each individual test result.

This blog post explains the setup: http://heisel.org/blog/2009/11/21/django-hudson/. There's a screenshot at the bottom that shows what's possible. It's geared toward django, but the idea is applicable to any python app.

A continuous integration server gives you many benefits beyond just graphing your test results. Hudson can automatically checkout your code after a subversion commit, run all your tests, email you if there's a failure, etc..

http://hudson-ci.org/

Answer 2

Nose has an html output module! (the --cover-html option). See here : http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.1/plugins/cover.html