Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

The simplest way of getting the coverage is to use the command line:

1. Simply run the following command:

$ coverage run --source=../<Folder name of application> --omit=app_tests.py,run.py app_tests.py 

Here, --source indicates the directories that are to be considered in coverage, and --omit indicates the files that need to be omitted in the process.

2. Now, to print the report on the terminal itself, run the following command:

    $ coverage report 

The following screenshot shows the output:

3. To get a nice HTML output of the coverage report, run the following command:

    $ coverage html 

This will create a new folder named htmlcov ...