Pytest Pulse — Pytest Report & Playwright Python Report Generator

The ultimate Pytest reporter for Playwright — an interactive dashboard with historical trend analytics, CI/CD-ready standalone HTML reports, and full support for parallel execution and sharding.

Core Features

• Interactive Dashboard: A rich, single-page application to visualize test results. Filter by status, browser, or test name. Expand test cases to see detailed steps (recorded via @step decorator or pulse_step fixture), errors, console logs, and attachments.
• Historical Trend Analysis: Automatically archives test runs to track performance over time. View trends for test volume, pass/fail rates, and execution duration.
• Standalone HTML Reports: Generate fully self-contained HTML reports with embedded attachments (screenshots, videos), perfect for sharing and CI/CD artifacts.
• Emailable Summaries: Automatically generate and send lightweight email reports with key statistics to stakeholders.
• Full Sharding & Parallel Support: Natively handles distributed test execution (pytest-xdist) and can merge reports from all shards into a single, comprehensive report.
• AI-Powered Analysis: Provides insights on test flakiness, performance bottlenecks, and failure patterns directly in the dashboard.

Installation

# Using pip
pip install pytest-pulse-reportCopy

Initial Configuration

Add the reporter to your pytest.ini file or pass it as a CLI argument.

# pytest.ini
[pytest]
addopts = 
    --pulse-report
    --pulse-output-dir=pulse-report
    --pulse-description="Pulse E2E Validation Suite"
    --browser chromium 
    --screenshot on 
    --video on
    --tracing onCopy

Ensure you have pytest-playwright installed for browser-specific features.

Generating Your First Report

1. Run your tests: Execute your pytest tests.

   pytestCopy

   This command will run your tests and the Pytest Pulse Reporter will automatically collect data in the background, creating a pulse-report directory.

2. Generate the HTML report: After the test run is complete, use the provided CLI command to generate the interactive HTML file.

   generate-pulse-reportCopy

   This creates a self-contained static file named playwright-pulse-static-report.html inside the pulse-report directory.

3. View your report: Open the newly generated HTML file in your browser to explore the dashboard.