Allow breaking the list of results in pages

[ghost]

Useful when you have thousands of tests and the browser struggles to open them all.

[davehunt]

This sounds like a nice enhancement. We could have a sensible default number of results and beyond that introduce pagination. My only concern is how filtering (#38) and sorting would be expected to work as these will be limited to the results on the page. It could simply be a not that's added to the page when pagination is present.

[davidedelvento]

I think that instead of just spitting the result in multiple "dumb" pages with a fixed number of tests in each (nobody said so, but it "felt" like the natural implementation of this enhancement), it would be nice to have the HTML pages structured in a hierarchy.

In the common py.test use case, there will be test_something.py files in different directories. Each directory (or maybe each file, possibly with a command line flag or configuration option to decide which one) should be its own html file.

Bonus point: the top-level html report summarizes everything, with a single line for each directory (file) stating how many run/pass/fail/etc and a link to the other HTML file with more details.

[davehunt]

In the common py.test use case, there will be test_something.py files in different directories. Each directory (or maybe each file, possibly with a command line flag or configuration option to decide which one) should be its own html file.

I like this idea better than creating pagination. It's possible there will still be thousands of rows though if the tests are parameterised. Would splitting HTML files by module/class/function work for your needs @gmagno?

Bonus point: the top-level html report summarizes everything, with a single line for each directory (file) stating how many run/pass/fail/etc and a link to the other HTML file with more details.

This is a great idea!

[ghost]

I like this idea better than creating pagination. It's possible there will still be thousands of rows though if the tests are parameterised. Would splitting HTML files by module/class/function work for your needs @gmagno?

That seems reasonable.