Coverage.py warning: No data was collected. (no-data-collected)

Question

I am trying to find the coverage using coverage module for a django project but gets

Coverage.py warning: No data was collected. (no-data-collected)
         


        

Answer 1

coverage (used by pytest-cov) needs the tests folder to contain an __init__.py before it will collect any data.

I added __init__.py to the tests folder and then coverage collected the data as expected.

Refer to http://thomas-cokelaer.info/blog/2017/01/pytest-cov-collects-no-data-on-travis/

Answer 2

I encountered this error with tox:

Coverage.py warning: No data was collected. (no-data-collected)

My configuration performs an install of the module and tests that rather than the source code. However, test discovery was finding a module that I had named test_*.py in my app package, causing PYTHONPATH confusion and resulting in failure to collect coverage details. Renaming the module to not start with test_ resolved the issue.

Answer 3

The problem is that you're not specifying which dir to get coverage from.

You can specify that in the .coveragerc file or on the command line:

pytest tests -v --cov-report term --cov-report html:htmlcov --cov-report xml --cov-fail-under=90 --cov=<the-dir-to-colect-coverage-from>

If you desire you can only execute pytest tests and add pytest args on pytest.ini at your project root:

[pytest]
addopts = -v --cov-report term --cov-report html:htmlcov --cov-report xml --cov-fail-under=<coverage-percentage-desired> --cov=<the-dir-to-colect-coverage-from>

Bonus:

If you want to omit files from the coverage you can add a .coveragerc file on your project root:

[run]
omit =
    # omit everything in the folder
    proj-ab/api/confs/
    # omit file
    proj-ab/models/file-not-covered.py

Requirements: On these examples I'm using requirements: pytest==4.6.2 and pytest-cov==2.7.1

Answer 4

if you need to use 'source' in your .coveragerc, you can write as below

[run]
source = src
omit = *migrations*, *tests*
plugins = django_coverage_plugin

Answer 5

I had the same issue and the above answers did not fully solve it. It turns out you need to have __init__.py was in every subdirectory that has a test.

Answer 6

I had the same issue and the problem was with the path I was running the tests.

What is working now:

Structure

~/Projects/ProjectName
├── manage.py
├── tests
├── src
│   ├── app_one
├── .coveragerc

Command:

~/Projects/ProjectName$ coverage run manage.py test

and my .coveragerc:

[run]
include = */src/*
omit = *migrations*, *tests*
plugins = django_coverage_plugin