Pytest Coverage Comment

This action comments a pull request or commit with a HTML test coverage report. The report is based on the coverage report generated by your test runner. Note that this action does not run any tests, but expects the tests to have been run by another action already (support pytest only).

Similar Action for Jest

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After I see that action become popular, I made similar action (even better) for javascript/typescript that runs jest jest-coverage-comment

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You can add this action to your GitHub workflow for Ubuntu runners (e.g. runs-on: ubuntu-latest) as follows:

- name: Pytest coverage comment
  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
  with:
    pytest-coverage-path: ./pytest-coverage.txt
    junitxml-path: ./pytest.xml

Inputs

Name	Required	Default	Description
github-token	✓	${{github.token}}	An alternative GitHub token, other than the default provided by GitHub Actions runner
issue-number		''	PR Number where you'd like your comments to be posted to. Required to post a comment when running the workflow on an event that isn't push or pull-request .
pytest-coverage-path		./pytest-coverage.txt	The location of the txt output of pytest-coverage. Used to determine coverage percentage
pytest-xml-coverage-path		''	The location of coverage-xml from pytest-coverage (--cov-report "xml:coverage.xml)
coverage-path-prefix		''	Prefix for path when link to files in comment
title		Coverage Report	Title for the coverage report. Useful for monorepo projects
badge-title		Coverage	Title for the badge icon
hide-badge		false	Hide badge with percentage
hide-report		false	Hide coverage report
report-only-changed-files		false	Show in report only changed files for this commit, and not all files
junitxml-path		''	The location of the junitxml. Used to determine test numbers (passed, failed, etc)
junitxml-title		''	Title for summary for junitxml
create-new-comment		false	When false, will update the same comment, otherwise will publish new comment on each run.
hide-comment		false	Hide the whole comment (use when you need only the output). Useful for auto-update bagdes in readme. See the workflow for example
default-branch		main	This branch name is useful when generate "coverageHtml", it points direct links to files on this branch (instead of commit). Usually "main" or "master"
multiple-files		''	You can pass array of titles and files to generate single comment with table of results. Single line should look like Title, ./path/to/pytest-coverage.txt, ./path/to/pytest-junit.xml example: My Title 1, ./data/pytest-coverage_3.txt, ./data/pytest_1.xml Note: In that mode the output for coverage and color will be for the first file only.
remove-link-from-badge		false	When true, it will remove the link from badge to readme
unique-id-for-comment		''	When running in a matrix, pass the matrix value, so each comment will be updated its own comment unique-id-for-comment: ${{ matrix.python-version }}

Output Variables

Name	Example	Description
coverage	30%	Percentage of the coverage, get from pytest-cov
color	red	Color of the percentage. You can see the whole list of badge colors
coverageHtml	...	Html with links to files of missing lines. See the output-example
summaryReport	...	Markdown with summaryof: Tests/Skipped/Failures/Errors/Time
warnings	2441	Number of warnings, get from pytest-cov
tests	109	Total number of tests, get from junitxml
skipped	2	Total number of skipped tests, get from junitxml
failures	1	Total number of tests with failures, get from junitxml
errors	0	Total number of tests with errors, get from junitxml
time	0.583	Seconds the took to run all the tests, get from junitxml
notSuccessTestInfo	example	Info from testcase that has failures/errors/skipped, get from junitxml

notSuccessTestInfo

the format will be JSON.stringify in current structure

{
  "failures": [{ "classname": "...", "name": "..." }],
  "errors": [{ "classname": "...", "name": "..." }],
  "skipped": [{ "classname": "...", "name": "..." }],
  "count": 3
}

Output example

Coverage Report

File	Stmts	Miss	Cover	Missing
functions/example_completed
example_completed.py	64	19	70%	33, 39–45, 48–51, 55–58, 65–70, 91–92
functions/example_manager
example_manager.py	44	11	75%	31–33, 49–55, 67–69
example_static.py	40	2	95%	60–61
functions/my_exampels
example.py	20	20	0%	1–31
functions/resources
resources.py	26	26	0%	1–37
TOTAL	1055	739	30%

Tests	Skipped	Failures	Errors	Time
109	2 💤	1 ❌	0 🔥	0.583s ⏱️

Example usage

The following is an example GitHub Action workflow that uses the Pytest Coverage Comment to extract the coverage report to comment at pull request:

# This workflow will install dependencies, create coverage tests and run Pytest Coverage Comment
# For more information see: https://github.com/MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment/
name: pytest-coverage-comment
on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - '*'

# https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/assigning-permissions-to-jobs
# `contents` is for permission to the contents of the repository.
# `pull-requests` is for permission to pull request
permissions:
  contents: write
  checks: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Set up Python 3.8
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: 3.8

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install flake8 pytest pytest-cov
          if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi

      - name: Build coverage file
        run: |
          pytest --junitxml=pytest.xml --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov=app tests/ | tee pytest-coverage.txt

      - name: Pytest coverage comment
        uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
        with:
          pytest-coverage-path: ./pytest-coverage.txt
          junitxml-path: ./pytest.xml

Example GitHub Action workflow that uses coverage percentage as output (see the live workflow)

- name: Pytest coverage comment
  id: coverageComment
  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
  with:
    pytest-coverage-path: ./pytest-coverage.txt
    junitxml-path: ./pytest.xml

- name: Check the output coverage
  run: |
    echo "Coverage Percentage - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.coverage }}"
    echo "Coverage Color - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.color }}"
    echo "Coverage Html - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.coverageHtml }}"
    echo "Summary Report - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.summaryReport }}"

    echo "Coverage Warnings - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.warnings }}"

    echo "Coverage Errors - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.errors }}"
    echo "Coverage Failures - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.failures }}"
    echo "Coverage Skipped - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.skipped }}"
    echo "Coverage Tests - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.tests }}"
    echo "Coverage Time - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.time }}"
    echo "Not Success Test Info - ${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.notSuccessTestInfo }}"

Example GitHub Action workflow that get coverage report from coverage-xml instead of coverage.txt pytest --cov-report "xml:coverage.xml" --cov=src tests/

- name: Pytest coverage comment
  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
  with:
    pytest-xml-coverage-path: ./coverage.xml

Example GitHub Action workflow that passes all params to Pytest Coverage Comment

- name: Pytest coverage comment
  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
  with:
    pytest-coverage-path: ./path-to-file/pytest-coverage.txt
    pytest-xml-coverage-path: ./path-to-file/coverage.xml
    title: My Coverage Report Title
    badge-title: My Badge Coverage Title
    hide-badge: false
    hide-report: false
    create-new-comment: false
    hide-comment: false
    report-only-changed-files: false
    remove-link-from-badge: false
    unique-id-for-comment: python3.8
    junitxml-path: ./path-to-file/pytest.xml
    junitxml-title: My JUnit Xml Summary Title

Example GitHub Action workflow that runs pytest inside docker It will generate pytest-coverage.txt and pytest.xml in /tmp directory inside docker and share /tmp directory with GitHub workspace.

- name: Run unit tests (pytest)
  run: |
    docker run -v /tmp:/tmp $IMAGE_TAG python3 -m pytest --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --junitxml=/tmp/pytest.xml --cov=src tests/ | tee /tmp/pytest-coverage.txt

- name: Pytest coverage comment
  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
  with:
    pytest-coverage-path: /tmp/pytest-coverage.txt
    junitxml-path: /tmp/pytest.xml

Example GitHub Action workflow that uses multiple files mode (see the live workflow)

- name: Pytest coverage comment
  uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
  with:
    multiple-files: |
      My Title 1, ./data/pytest-coverage_3.txt, ./data/pytest_junit_1.xml
      My Title 2, ./data/pytest-coverage_4.txt, ./data/pytest_junit_2.xml

Example GitHub Action workflow that will update your README.md with coverage report, only on merge to main branch (see the update-coverage-on-readme workflow) All you need is to add in your README.md the following lines wherever you want. If your coverage html report will not change, it wouldn't push any changes to readme file.

<!-- Pytest Coverage Comment:Begin -->
<!-- Pytest Coverage Comment:End -->

name: Update Coverage on Readme
on:
  push:

# https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/assigning-permissions-to-jobs
# `contents` is for permission to the contents of the repository.
# `pull-requests` is for permission to pull request
permissions:
  contents: write
  checks: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  update-coverage-on-readme:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          persist-credentials: false # otherwise, the token used is the GITHUB_TOKEN, instead of your personal token
          fetch-depth: 0 # otherwise, you will failed to push refs to dest repo

      - name: Pytest coverage comment
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
        id: coverageComment
        uses: MishaKav/pytest-coverage-comment@main
        with:
          hide-comment: true
          pytest-coverage-path: ./data/pytest-coverage_4.txt

      - name: Update Readme with Coverage Html
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
        run: |
          sed -i '/<!-- Pytest Coverage Comment:Begin -->/,/<!-- Pytest Coverage Comment:End -->/c\<!-- Pytest Coverage Comment:Begin -->\n\${{ steps.coverageComment.outputs.coverageHtml }}\n<!-- Pytest Coverage Comment:End -->' ./README.md

      - name: Commit & Push changes to Readme
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
        uses: actions-js/push@master
        with:
          message: Update coverage on Readme
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Result example

Collapsed comment

Expanded comment

Multiple Files Mode (can be useful on mono-repo projects)

Badge Colors

Badge	Range
	0 - 40
	40 - 60
	60 - 80
	80 - 90
	90 - 100

Auto updating badge on README

If you want auto-update the coverage badge on your Readme, you can see the workflow

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