Getting Captain working with unittest

1. 🧪 Ensure unittest produces junit output

unittest doesn't natively support writing output to a file, but you can use unittest-xml-reporting as your test runner to produce junit output without having to modify your tests at all.

pip install unittest-xml-reporting
python -m xmlrunner -o tmp

will produce Captain-compatible xml output in the tmp/ directory.

2. 🔐 Create an Access Token

Create an Access Token for your organization within Captain (more documentation here).

Add the new token as an action secret to your repository. Conventionally, we call this secret RWX_ACCESS_TOKEN.

3. 💌 Install the Captain CLI and call it when running tests

See the full documentation on test suite integration. Use a glob when specifying --test-results since unittest-xml-reporting will write multiple files by default. You'll also need to specify --language Python and --framework unittest to inform the Captain CLI about how to interpret the test result files.

- uses: rwx-research/setup-captain@v1
- name: Run tests
  run: |
    captain run \
      --suite-id captain-examples-unittest \
      --test-results tmp/*.xml \
      --language Python \
      --framework unittest \
      -- python -m xmlrunner -o tmp
  env:
    RWX_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RWX_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

4. 🎉 See your test results in Captain!

Take a look at the final workflow!