allure-framework / allure-framework/allure-python

AssertionError vs Exception

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Description

Currently Allure fails only on AssertionError and all Exception is treated as Broken.
This is a good feature but pytest reports them as Fail. This causes a bit of confusion on the report status.

An intermediate approach can be to allow for option on what constitutes a fail.
A suggestion is to provide an API where one can register baseclasses that can be as failures. This provides for better control to use with infrastructures that can have some common analysis to look for additional failures.

```
def get_status(exception):
if exception:
if isinstance(exception, AssertionError) or isinstance(exception, pytest.fail.Exception):
return Status.FAILED
elif isinstance(exception, pytest.skip.Exception):
return Status.SKIPPED
return Status.BROKEN
else:
return Status.PASSED
```

=> Something like...

```
def get_status(exception):
if exception:
for base_class in allure.FailExceptionList:
if isinstance(exception, base_class):
return Status.FAILED
elif isinstance(exception, pytest.skip.Exception):
return Status.SKIPPED
return Status.BROKEN
else:
return Status.PASSED
```

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Research direction

The issue names no implementation files or tests. Start by locating the existing exception-to-status path represented by get_status and its pytest integration; done means allowing configurable exception base classes while preserving failed, skipped, broken, and passed status handling.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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