diff --git a/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py b/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py
index 63e7d0de6aa..06a8d72a00d 100644
--- a/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py
+++ b/tools/marvin/marvin/TestCaseExecuteEngine.py
@@ -95,4 +95,4 @@ class TestCaseExecuteEngine(object):
             if self.format == "text":
                 unittest.TextTestRunner(stream=self.testResultLogFile, verbosity=2).run(self.suite)
             elif self.format == "xml":
-                xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(output=self.xmlDir, verbose=True).run(self.suite)
+                xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(output=self.xmlDir).run(self.suite)
diff --git a/tools/marvin/marvin/settings.py b/tools/marvin/marvin/settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..30b78ac1522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/marvin/marvin/settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# Settings for the XML test runner
+
+# Use this setting to choose between a verbose and a non-verbose output.
+TEST_OUTPUT_VERBOSE = 2.
+
+# If your test methods contains docstrings, you can display such docstrings
+# instead of display the test name (ex: module.TestCase.test_method).  In order to
+# use this feature, you have to enable verbose output by setting
+# TEST_OUTPUT_VERBOSE = 2.
+
+TEST_OUTPUT_DESCRIPTIONS=True 
diff --git a/tools/marvin/setup.py b/tools/marvin/setup.py
index a9621bdae2e..f0de384bfea 100644
--- a/tools/marvin/setup.py
+++ b/tools/marvin/setup.py
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ setup(name="Marvin",
           "mysql-connector-python",
           "paramiko",
           "nose",
-          "unittest-xml-reporting"
+          "unittest-xml-reporting>1.2"
       ],         
      )