Selenium Pytest - Unrecognized argument html report

Question

I created some test scripts using selenium python and they have been working okay. However, I have had trouble when I tried to generate an html report or an allure report.

I used the following command to try to generate a pytest html report: "pipenv run python -m pytest xxx/test_xxxx.py --html=report.html". However, I got the following error: "

ERROR: usage: __main__.py [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
__main__.py: error: unrecognized arguments: --html=report.html
  inifile: None
  rootdir: C:\Users\xxxx\xxxx"

. I had installed the pytest-html plugin using pip install pytest-html, so I am not sure what I have been doing wrong.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that did not work. I also tried the following links (among others):

• pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --html=report.html
• generate html and json reports for selenium python automation test using pytest

Does anyone have any insight?

Answer 1

I think I have found the solution. Since I am using pipenv to run my tests, I would have to install the dependencies through pipenv as well. So for the html and allure reports, the full commands would be as follows:

pipenv run pip install allure-pytest
pipenv run pip install pytest-html

After trying this, I ran my previous commands and I no longer got the issue.