Pytest - custom output of test results

Question

I want to completely custom tests results output. In unittest I can implement my own test runner by example of unittest.TextTestRunner. How can I do the same in pytest?

Answer 1

As described in "Writing plugins" section of pytest documentation, you'll need to work with pytest hooks:

pytest implements all aspects of configuration, collection, running and reporting by calling well specified hooks of the following plugins:

Also see:

• py.test code snippets
• pycon tutorial session (it also goes through using hooks)