diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/unittest-xml-reporting/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/unittest-xml-reporting/default.nix
index fb4a3b543ce0..8497d17a5f37 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/unittest-xml-reporting/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/unittest-xml-reporting/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , buildPythonPackage
 , lxml
+, pythonAtLeast
 , pythonOlder
 , pytestCheckHook
 }:
@@ -26,6 +27,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytestCheckHook
   ];
 
+  pytestFlagsArray = lib.optionals (pythonAtLeast "3.11") [
+    # AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'shortDescription'
+    "--deselect=tests/testsuite.py::XMLTestRunnerTestCase::test_basic_unittest_constructs"
+    "--deselect=tests/testsuite.py::XMLTestRunnerTestCase::test_unexpected_success"
+  ];
+
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "xmlrunner" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {