Filtering Results from Coverage.py
Posted by Peter Baumgartner on August 24, 2011. Filed under pro tip
Coverage.py makes it easy to see how much of your code is covered by your test suite. It can be configured to spit out reports in XML (for consumption by a continuous integration server like Jenkins), in HTML (for human viewing), or simply dumping out plain text.
Getting started with coverage and Django is easy. First make sure you have the latest version of coverage (3.5 at time of writing) installed by running pip install -U coverage, then run your test suite and print a report:
coverage run manage.py test
coverage report
This is all well and good, but you’ll quickly notice that coverage reports on every file it touches including third-party libraries, the Django framework, and even Python itself. Often, you only want to see the coverage report for your code. Coverage provides a few options to narrow the scope of the report. They are ...