Add ability to set suite name in JUnit XML report

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Originally reported by: Simon Lundmark (BitBucket: simlun, GitHub: simlun)

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Today as of the resolved issue #355 the XML report's root <testsuite> tag's name attribute is hard-coded to pytest. To make reporting easier in larger projects with several test suites it is useful to set this attribute to something meaningful like unit, integration, gui, etc. Other reporting tools that read and aggregate JUnit-style XML reports rely on this argument.

I propose adding a --junit-suitename str argument to the py.test command which would set this string.

I'm happy to contribute to the project with this feature if the people in charge think it's a good idea.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/533

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Original comment by Simon Lundmark (BitBucket: simlun, GitHub: simlun):

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What do you say @hpk42 ? Is this feature likely to be included in pytest if the code were to be written? Or is it better to build this as some kind of plugin?

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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Sorry for failing to get back -- yes, i think this is a useful feature. See http://pytest.org/latest/contributing.html for more info how to proceed.

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Original comment by Simon Lundmark (BitBucket: simlun, GitHub: simlun):

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No worries, thanks for your (now very quick 😃) reply! I will read up on contributing!