What does this do?

[msabramo]

Sounds interesting, but it's not clear from the description what I get out of this?

If I mark my tests with Jira issue ids and then run py.test --jira, what happens? Does it log a comment to Jira for every test run? Does it close the issue when the test passes?

[jlaska]

Greetings @msabramo. The intent for this plugin was to link tests with Jira tickets. The plugin behaves similar to the pytest-bugzilla plugin.

If the test fails ..

• and the Jira ticket is still unresolved (aka not fixed), the test result is xfail (e.g. known failure).
• and the Jira ticket is resolved (aka fixed), the test result is fail (e.g. unexpected failure).

If the test passed ...

• and the Jira ticket is still unresolved (aka not fixed), the test result is xpassed (e.g. unexpected pass).
• and the Jira ticket is resolved, the test result is passed (e.g. everything works).

The plugin does not close Jira tickets, or create them. It just allows you to link tests to existing tickets.