diff --git a/Functions/TestsRunningInCleanRunspace.Tests.ps1 b/Functions/TestsRunningInCleanRunspace.Tests.ps1
index bb8d6d92a..ceaee866e 100644
--- a/Functions/TestsRunningInCleanRunspace.Tests.ps1
+++ b/Functions/TestsRunningInCleanRunspace.Tests.ps1
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
-function Invoke-PesterInJob ($ScriptBlock)
+function Invoke-PesterInJob ($ScriptBlock, [switch] $GenerateNUnitReport)
 {
-    #TODO: there must be a safer way to determine this while I am in describe
-    $PesterPath = Get-Module -Name Pester | Select -First 1 -ExpandProperty Path
+    $PesterPath = Get-Module Pester | Select-Object -First 1 -ExpandProperty Path
 
     $job = Start-Job {
-        param ($PesterPath, $TestDrive, $ScriptBlock)
+        param ($PesterPath, $TestDrive, $ScriptBlock, $GenerateNUnitReport)
         Import-Module $PesterPath -Force | Out-Null
         $ScriptBlock | Set-Content $TestDrive\Temp.Tests.ps1 | Out-Null
 
-        Invoke-Pester -PassThru -Path $TestDrive
+        $params = @{
+            PassThru = $true
+            Path = $TestDrive
+        }
+
+        if ($GenerateNUnitReport)
+        {
+            $params['OutputFile'] = "$TestDrive\Temp.Tests.xml"
+            $params['OutputFormat'] = 'NUnitXml'
+        }
 
-    } -ArgumentList  $PesterPath, $TestDrive, $ScriptBlock
+        Invoke-Pester @params
+
+    } -ArgumentList  $PesterPath, $TestDrive, $ScriptBlock, $GenerateNUnitReport
     $job | Wait-Job | Out-Null
 
     #not using Recieve-Job to ignore any output to Host
@@ -84,6 +94,26 @@ Describe "Tests running in clean runspace" {
 
         $result.TotalCount | Should Be 4
     }
+
+    It 'Produces valid NUnit output when syntax errors occur in test scripts' {
+        $invalidScript = '
+            Describe "Something" {
+                It "Works" {
+                    $true | Should Be $true
+                }
+            # Deliberately missing closing brace to trigger syntax error
+        '
+
+        $result = Invoke-PesterInJob -ScriptBlock $invalidScript -GenerateNUnitReport
+
+        $result.FailedCount | Should Be 1
+        $result.TotalCount | Should Be 1
+        'TestDrive:\Temp.Tests.xml' | Should Exist
+
+        $xml = [xml](Get-Content TestDrive:\Temp.Tests.xml)
+
+        $xml.'test-results'.'test-suite'.results.'test-suite'.name | Should Not BeNullOrEmpty
+    }
 }
 
 Describe 'Guarantee It fail on setup or teardown fail (running in clean runspace)' {
diff --git a/Pester.psm1 b/Pester.psm1
index 18076b57f..074b1b0f8 100644
--- a/Pester.psm1
+++ b/Pester.psm1
@@ -289,6 +289,12 @@ about_pester
         {
             $firstStackTraceLine = $_.ScriptStackTrace -split '\r?\n' | & $script:SafeCommands['Select-Object'] -First 1
             $pester.AddTestResult("Error occurred in test script '$($testScript.Path)'", "Failed", $null, $_.Exception.Message, $firstStackTraceLine, $null, $null, $_)
+
+            # This is a hack to ensure that XML output is valid for now.  The test-suite names come from the Describe attribute of the TestResult
+            # objects, and a blank name is invalid NUnit XML.  This will go away when we promote test scripts to have their own test-suite nodes,
+            # planned for v4.0
+            $pester.TestResult[-1].Describe = "Error in $($testScript.Path)"
+
             $pester.TestResult[-1] | Write-PesterResult
         }
     }