Is it possible exclude test directories from coverage.py reports?

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Kyle Fox picture Kyle Fox · Oct 27, 2009 · Viewed 25.8k times · Source

I'm kind of a rookie with python unit testing, and particularly coverage.py. Is it desirable to have coverage reports include the coverage of your actual test files?

Here's a screenshot of my HTML report as an example.

You can see that the report includes tests/test_credit_card. At first I was trying to omit the tests/ directory from the reports, like so:

coverage html --omit=tests/ -d tests/coverage

I tried several variations of that command but I could not for the life of me get the tests/ excluded. After accepting defeat, I began to wonder if maybe the test files are supposed to be included in the report.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Answer

user3128809 picture user3128809 · Dec 23, 2013

coverage html --omit="*/test*" -d tests/coverage

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