nose2 coverage plugin timing

Question

I'm running nose2 tests with the coverage plugin. I noticed that decorators, class declarations, and function definitions aren't being marked as covered, even though the "actual code" underneath them is. I found this answer , which suggests starting coverage "earlier."

How would I do this via nose2? I tried exporting NOSE_WITH_COVERAGE=True , but that didn't seem to do anything.

Additional context: eventually we're hoping to plug these tests into Jenkins, if that matters.

ETA: adding a [coverage] section with always-on = True to my nose2.cfg didn't work.

Answer 1

The fool-proof way to get coverage started earlier is to use coverage to run nose, instead of using nose to run coverage. For example, instead of:

$ nose2 blah blah blah

you can use:

$ coverage run -m nose2 blah blah blah

and then just leave out the nose coverage options from blah blah blah .