diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index b5b67c8..92be2b3 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
           name: run tests
           command: |
             mkdir test-reports
-            poetry run pytest --cov=anisotropy tests > test-reports/pytest.log 2>&1 
+            poetry run pytest --cov=anisotropy --json-report --json-report-file test-reports/pytest.json -v tests
       - store_artifacts:
           path: test-reports
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 17634ca..2114c75 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -441,6 +441,29 @@ pytest = ">=4.6"
 [package.extras]
 testing = ["fields", "hunter", "process-tests", "six", "pytest-xdist", "virtualenv"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pytest-json-report"
+version = "1.4.1"
+description = "A pytest plugin to report test results as JSON files"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pytest = ">=3.8.0"
+pytest-metadata = "*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "pytest-metadata"
+version = "1.11.0"
+description = "pytest plugin for test session metadata"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pytest = ">=2.9.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "python-dateutil"
 version = "2.8.2"
@@ -705,7 +728,7 @@ docs = []
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.9,<3.11"
-content-hash = "edfcde1d18b7acee35be898dd8a766db8bd2c410f3ced8fc8ca3961be213a3c5"
+content-hash = "33e739eb30938e673a1413c60aa0fdebb255ff3e45e7c19f288b57c02be098fe"
 
 [metadata.files]
 alabaster = [
@@ -1169,6 +1192,14 @@ pytest-cov = [
     {file = "pytest-cov-3.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e7f0f5b1617d2210a2cabc266dfe2f4c75a8d32fb89eafb7ad9d06f6d076d470"},
     {file = "pytest_cov-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:578d5d15ac4a25e5f961c938b85a05b09fdaae9deef3bb6de9a6e766622ca7a6"},
 ]
+pytest-json-report = [
+    {file = "pytest-json-report-1.4.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:87206752e1d9c6c86e8fdc66b34b7a452ad82766a621b263cd5e828d19caee55"},
+    {file = "pytest_json_report-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:722425e8910f62079ed0cf039581e70e042fcba0ca8f91094df2ef2239d3f8de"},
+]
+pytest-metadata = [
+    {file = "pytest-metadata-1.11.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:71b506d49d34e539cc3cfdb7ce2c5f072bea5c953320002c95968e0238f8ecf1"},
+    {file = "pytest_metadata-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:576055b8336dd4a9006dd2a47615f76f2f8c30ab12b1b1c039d99e834583523f"},
+]
 python-dateutil = [
     {file = "python-dateutil-2.8.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0123cacc1627ae19ddf3c27a5de5bd67ee4586fbdd6440d9748f8abb483d3e86"},
     {file = "python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:961d03dc3453ebbc59dbdea9e4e11c5651520a876d0f4db161e8674aae935da9"},
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8f8d0b3..3025452 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ pydeps = {version = "^1.10.12", optional = true}
 peewee-erd = {version = "^0.1.3", optional = true}
 Sphinx = {version = "^4.3.0", optional = true}
 sphinx-rtd-theme = {version = "^1.0.0", optional = true}
+pytest-json-report = "^1.4.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 analyze = ["jupyterlab", "seaborn", "sklearn"]
diff --git a/tests/test_shaping.py b/tests/test_shaping.py
index f615c53..8c3b105 100644
--- a/tests/test_shaping.py
+++ b/tests/test_shaping.py
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ unittest.TestLoader.sortTestMethodsUsing = None
 
 class TestShaping(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
+        try:
+            import netgen
+            NETGEN_MODULE = False
+
+        except ImportError:
+            NETGEN_MODULE = True
+
+        if not NETGEN_MODULE:
+            self.skipTest("Missing Netgen.")
+
         from anisotropy import shaping
 
         self.shaping = shaping