Which Clojure test runner to use?

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Clojure has a built in test framework which works very well and for most of my Clojure experience it has done the job, until yesterday.  As part of a new project I needed to integrate with Bitbucket Pipeline, specifically I needed to run my unit tests and have the build fail on a failed test and report which test failed.  Bitbucket supports this integration.

The standard way to do this is to have the test runner create a XUnit compatible XML file and have the CI tool consume this file to produce the reports.  Unfortunately, the junit.xml file created by the default Clojure test runner creates a junit.xml that does not follow the spec and Bitbucket doesn't report which tests failed.

After some research, I found that Kaocha does a much better job of creating a junit.xml that Bitbucket Pipeline can grok.  In addition, it also supports code coverage which is a great bonus.

Here is the stanza for deps.edn to make it work: