Add a ISO-8601 timestamp to every testsuite and testcase in the XML-report.

Author: fniessink

tests/builder_test.py

@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ def test_add_time_attribute_on_end_context(self):
 
         element.attributes['time'].value
 
+    def test_add_timestamp_attribute_on_end_context(self):
+        self.root.begin('testsuite', 'name')
+        element = self.root.end()
+
+        element.attributes['timestamp'].value
+
 
 class TestXMLBuilderTest(unittest.TestCase):
     """TestXMLBuilder test cases.

xmlrunner/builder.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import re
 import sys
+import datetime
 import time
 import six
 
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ def end(self):
         """
         self._stop_time = time.time()
         self.element.setAttribute('time', self.elapsed_time())
+        self.element.setAttribute('timestamp', self.timestamp())
         self._set_result_counters()
         return self.element
 
@@ -121,6 +123,11 @@ def elapsed_time(self):
         """
         return format(self._stop_time - self._start_time, '.3f')
 
+    def timestamp(self):
+        """Returns the time the context ended as ISO-8601-formatted timestamp.
+        """
+        return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(self._stop_time).replace(microsecond=0).isoformat()
+
 
 class TestXMLBuilder(object):
     """This class encapsulates most rules needed to create a XML test report