Show session duration in human-readable format

changelog/5707.improvement.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Time taken to run the test suite now includes a human-readable representation when it takes over
+60 seconds, for example::
+
+    ===== 2 failed in 102.70s (0:01:42) =====

src/_pytest/pytester.py

@@ -340,7 +340,10 @@ def _config_for_test():
     config._ensure_unconfigure()  # cleanup, e.g. capman closing tmpfiles.
 
 
-rex_outcome = re.compile(r"(\d+) ([\w-]+)")
+# regex to match the session duration string in the summary: "74.34s"
+rex_session_duration = re.compile(r"\d+\.\d\ds")
+# regex to match all the counts and phrases in the summary line: "34 passed, 111 skipped"
+rex_outcome = re.compile(r"(\d+) (\w+)")
 
 
 class RunResult:
@@ -379,14 +382,11 @@ def parseoutcomes(self):
 
         """
         for line in reversed(self.outlines):
-            if "seconds" in line:
+            if rex_session_duration.search(line):
                 outcomes = rex_outcome.findall(line)
-                if outcomes:
-                    d = {}
-                    for num, cat in outcomes:
-                        d[cat] = int(num)
-                    return d
-        raise ValueError("Pytest terminal report not found")
+                return {noun: int(count) for (count, noun) in outcomes}
+
+        raise ValueError("Pytest terminal summary report not found")
 
     def assert_outcomes(
         self, passed=0, skipped=0, failed=0, error=0, xpassed=0, xfailed=0

src/_pytest/terminal.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 """
 import argparse
 import collections
+import datetime
 import platform
 import sys
 import time
@@ -861,7 +862,7 @@ def _outrep_summary(self, rep):
     def summary_stats(self):
         session_duration = time.time() - self._sessionstarttime
         (line, color) = build_summary_stats_line(self.stats)
-        msg = "{} in {:.2f} seconds".format(line, session_duration)
+        msg = "{} in {}".format(line, format_session_duration(session_duration))
         markup = {color: True, "bold": True}
 
         if self.verbosity >= 0:
@@ -1055,3 +1056,12 @@ def _plugin_nameversions(plugininfo):
         if name not in values:
             values.append(name)
     return values
+
+
+def format_session_duration(seconds):
+    """Format the given seconds in a human readable manner to show in the final summary"""
+    if seconds < 60:
+        return "{:.2f}s".format(seconds)
+    else:
+        dt = datetime.timedelta(seconds=int(seconds))
+        return "{:.2f}s ({})".format(seconds, dt)

testing/logging/test_reporting.py

@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ def test_simple():
         expected_lines.extend(
             [
                 "*test_collection_collect_only_live_logging.py::test_simple*",
-                "no tests ran in * seconds",
+                "no tests ran in 0.[0-9][0-9]s",
             ]
         )
     elif verbose == "-qq":

testing/test_pytester.py

@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ def test_assert_outcomes_after_pytest_error(testdir):
     testdir.makepyfile("def test_foo(): assert True")
 
     result = testdir.runpytest("--unexpected-argument")
-    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Pytest terminal report not found"):
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Pytest terminal summary report not found"):
         result.assert_outcomes(passed=0)
 
 

testing/test_terminal.py

@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ def test_passes():
                     pluggy.__version__,
                 ),
                 "*test_header_trailer_info.py .*",
-                "=* 1 passed*in *.[0-9][0-9] seconds *=",
+                "=* 1 passed*in *.[0-9][0-9]s *=",
             ]
         )
         if request.config.pluginmanager.list_plugin_distinfo():
@@ -1678,3 +1678,20 @@ def check(msg, width, expected):
     check("😄😄😄😄😄\n2nd line", 41, "FAILED nodeid::😄::withunicode - 😄😄...")
     check("😄😄😄😄😄\n2nd line", 42, "FAILED nodeid::😄::withunicode - 😄😄😄...")
     check("😄😄😄😄😄\n2nd line", 80, "FAILED nodeid::😄::withunicode - 😄😄😄😄😄")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "seconds, expected",
+    [
+        (10.0, "10.00s"),
+        (10.34, "10.34s"),
+        (59.99, "59.99s"),
+        (60.55, "60.55s (0:01:00)"),
+        (123.55, "123.55s (0:02:03)"),
+        (60 * 60 + 0.5, "3600.50s (1:00:00)"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_format_session_duration(seconds, expected):
+    from _pytest.terminal import format_session_duration
+
+    assert format_session_duration(seconds) == expected