How to aggregate test results to publish to testrail after executing pytest tests with xdist? - pytest

Question

I'm running into a problem like this. I'm currently using pytest to run test cases, and reducing execution time using xdist to run tests in parallel and publishing tests results to TestRail. The issue is when using xdist, pytest-testrail plugin creates Test-Run for each xdist workers and then publishes test cases like Untested.
I tried this hook pytest_terminal_summary to prevent pytest_sessionfinish plugin hook from being call multiple times.
I expect only one test run is created, but still multiple test runs are created.

Answer 1

I ran in to the same problem, but found a kind of workaround with duct tape.
I found that all results are collecting properly in test run, if we run the tests with --tr-run-id key.
If you are using jenkins jobs to automate processes, you can do following:
1) create testrun using testrail API
2) get ID of this test run
3) run the tests with --tr-run-id=$TEST_RUN_ID
I used these docs:
http://docs.gurock.com/testrail-api2/bindings-python
http://docs.gurock.com/testrail-api2/reference-runs
from testrail import *
import sys
client = APIClient('URL')
client.user = 'login'
client.password = 'password'
result = client.send_post('add_run/1', {"name": sys.argv[1], "assignedto_id": 1}).get("id")
print(result)
then in jenkins shell
RUN_ID=`python3 testrail_run.py $BUILD_TAG`
and then
python3 -m pytest -n 3 --testrail --tr-run-id=$RUN_ID --tr-config=testrail.cfg ...