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Disclaimer: Albeit useful already, this is a work-in-progress and should be seen as such.
A coverage plugin for Python's Ward testing framework

Build the plugin:
poetry build
and install using
pip install dist/ward_coverage-0.1.1-py3-none-any.whl
To include coverage in your test run, add the following to your pyproject.toml:
[tool.ward]
hook_module = ["ward_coverage"]
There are several options to configure the plugin which can be included under section [tool.ward.plugins.coverage], namely:
report_type, defaulting to ["term"], which is a list of report types to generate. Possible values are one or more of 'lcov', 'html', 'xml', 'json', 'term'threshold for minimum coverage, affecting the color the result panel has for some sort of visual cue[run] section goes to [tool.ward.plugins.coverage] and other sections need their separate block (e.g [tool.ward.plugins.coverage.report]) or dictionary entry within the [tool.ward.plugins.coverage] section in toml.[tool.ward.plugins.coverage]
omit = ["*test*", "example.py", "**/__init__.py"]
report_type = ["term", "xml"]
source = ["."]
branch = true
relative_files = true
report = {skip_empty = true}
Contributors, issues and feature requests are welcome.
FAQs
A coverage plugin for Ward testing framework
We found that ward-coverage demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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