diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 04b87359d6c..42bdf81b16a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Ronny Pfannschmidt
 Ross Lawley
 Ryan Wooden
 Samuele Pedroni
+Tareq Alayan
 Tom Viner
 Trevor Bekolay
 Wouter van Ackooy
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 0d61505331a..c1f573f18aa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
   tests.
   Thanks `@kalekundert`_ for the complete PR (`#1441`_).
 
+* New Add ability to add global properties in the final xunit output file.
+  Thanks `@tareqalayan`_ for the complete PR `#1454`_).
+
+
 *
 
 **Changes**
@@ -28,10 +32,13 @@
 .. _@milliams: https://github.com/milliams
 .. _@novas0x2a: https://github.com/novas0x2a
 .. _@kalekundert: https://github.com/kalekundert
+.. _@tareqalayan: https://github.com/tareqalayan
 
 .. _#1428: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1428
 .. _#1444: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1444
 .. _#1441: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1441
+.. _#1454: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1454
+
 
 2.9.1.dev1
 ==========
diff --git a/_pytest/junitxml.py b/_pytest/junitxml.py
index 6c090f9c0c0..168faaf1367 100644
--- a/_pytest/junitxml.py
+++ b/_pytest/junitxml.py
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ def __init__(self, logfile, prefix):
         ], 0)
         self.node_reporters = {}  # nodeid -> _NodeReporter
         self.node_reporters_ordered = []
+        self.global_properties = []
 
     def finalize(self, report):
         nodeid = getattr(report, 'nodeid', report)
@@ -273,9 +274,12 @@ def node_reporter(self, report):
         if key in self.node_reporters:
             # TODO: breasks for --dist=each
             return self.node_reporters[key]
+
         reporter = _NodeReporter(nodeid, self)
+
         self.node_reporters[key] = reporter
         self.node_reporters_ordered.append(reporter)
+
         return reporter
 
     def add_stats(self, key):
@@ -361,7 +365,9 @@ def pytest_sessionfinish(self):
         numtests = self.stats['passed'] + self.stats['failure']
 
         logfile.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>')
+
         logfile.write(Junit.testsuite(
+            self._get_global_properties_node(),
             [x.to_xml() for x in self.node_reporters_ordered],
             name="pytest",
             errors=self.stats['error'],
@@ -374,3 +380,18 @@ def pytest_sessionfinish(self):
     def pytest_terminal_summary(self, terminalreporter):
         terminalreporter.write_sep("-",
                                    "generated xml file: %s" % (self.logfile))
+
+    def add_global_property(self, name, value):
+        self.global_properties.append((str(name), bin_xml_escape(value)))
+
+    def _get_global_properties_node(self):
+        """Return a Junit node containing custom properties, if any.
+        """
+        if self.global_properties:
+            return Junit.properties(
+                    [
+                        Junit.property(name=name, value=value)
+                        for name, value in self.global_properties
+                    ]
+            )
+        return ''
diff --git a/doc/en/usage.rst b/doc/en/usage.rst
index 4b92fd1e150..adf97c067fc 100644
--- a/doc/en/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/en/usage.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,47 @@ This will add an extra property ``example_key="1"`` to the generated
       </properties>
     </testcase>
 
+LogXML: add_global_property
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.10
+
+If you want to add a properties node in the testsuite level, which may contains properties that are relevant
+to all testcases you can use ``LogXML.add_global_properties``
+Note that this feature will be available on v2.10.1.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    import pytest
+
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+    def log_global_env_facts(f):
+
+        if pytest.config.pluginmanager.hasplugin('junitxml'):
+            my_junit = getattr(pytest.config, '_xml', None)
+
+        my_junit.add_global_property('ARCH', 'PPC')
+        my_junit.add_global_property('STORAGE_TYPE', 'CEPH')
+
+    @pytest.mark.usefixtures(log_global_env_facts)
+    def start_and_prepare_env():
+        pass
+
+    class TestMe:
+        def test_foo(self):
+            assert True
+
+This will add a property node below the testsuite node to the generated xml:
+.. code-block:: xml
+
+    <testsuite errors="0" failures="0" name="pytest" skips="0" tests="1" time="0.006">
+      <properties>
+        <property name="ARCH" value="PPC"/>
+        <property name="STORAGE_TYPE" value="CEPH"/>
+      </properties>
+      <testcase classname="test_me.TestMe" file="test_me.py" line="16" name="test_foo" time="0.000243663787842"/>
+    </testsuite>
+
 .. warning::
 
     This is an experimental feature, and its interface might be replaced
diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 99c59cb7a0b..8ff1028df98 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -783,3 +783,38 @@ def test_pass():
         u'test_fancy_items_regression test_pass'
         u' test_fancy_items_regression.py',
     ]
+
+
+def test_global_properties(testdir):
+    path = testdir.tmpdir.join("test_global_properties.xml")
+    log = LogXML(str(path), None)
+    from _pytest.runner import BaseReport
+
+    class Report(BaseReport):
+        sections = []
+        nodeid = "test_node_id"
+
+    log.pytest_sessionstart()
+    log.add_global_property('foo', 1)
+    log.add_global_property('bar', 2)
+    log.pytest_sessionfinish()
+
+    dom = minidom.parse(str(path))
+
+    properties = dom.getElementsByTagName('properties')
+
+    assert (properties.length == 1), "There must be one <properties> node"
+
+    property_list = dom.getElementsByTagName('property')
+
+    assert (property_list.length == 2), "There most be only 2 property nodes"
+
+    expected = {'foo': '1', 'bar': '2'}
+    actual = {}
+
+    for p in property_list:
+        k = str(p.getAttribute('name'))
+        v = str(p.getAttribute('value'))
+        actual[k] = v
+
+    assert actual == expected