Index: unittest-xml-reporting-3.2.0/xmlrunner/result.py
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--- unittest-xml-reporting-3.2.0.orig/xmlrunner/result.py
+++ unittest-xml-reporting-3.2.0/xmlrunner/result.py
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ class _TestInfo(object):
         """
         return self.test_exception_info
 
+    def shortDescription(self):
+        return self.test_description
+
 
 class _XMLTestResult(TextTestResult):
     """
@@ -673,3 +676,8 @@ class _XMLTestResult(TextTestResult):
     def _exc_info_to_string(self, err, test):
         """Converts a sys.exc_info()-style tuple of values into a string."""
         return super(_XMLTestResult, self)._exc_info_to_string(err, test)
+
+    def getDescription(self, test):
+        if isinstance(test, tuple):
+            test = test[0]
+        return super().getDescription(test)