diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4c6997a8a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# (C) British Crown Copyright 2012-8 Met Office.
+#
+# This file is part of Rose, a framework for meteorological suites.
+#
+# Rose is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Rose is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Rose. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# This is the Coverage.py configuration file. This is used by Travis-CI when running
+# the tests and collecting coverage
+
+[run]
+
+branch=True
+cover_pylib=False
+concurrency=thread
+data_file=${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/.coverage
+disable_warnings=
+debug=
+#    callers
+#    dataio
+#    multiprocess
+#    dataio
+#    dataop
+#    pid
+#    plugin
+#    process
+#    sys
+#    trace
+# Include can be used only if source is not used!
+#include
+note=
+omit=
+    */lib/python/isodatetime*
+parallel = False
+plugins=
+source=
+    ./bin
+    ./lib/python
+timid = False
+
+
+[report]
+
+exclude_lines =
+    pragma: no cover
+    def __repr__
+    raise NotImplementedError
+    if __name__ == .__main__.:
+    def parse_args
+fail_under=0
+ignore_errors = False
+include=
+omit=
+    */lib/python/isodatetime*
+partial_branches=
+precision=2
+show_missing=False
+skip_covered=False
+sort=Name
+
+
+[html]
+
+directory=htmlcov
+extra_css=
+title=
+
+
+[xml]
+
+output=coverage.xml
+package_depth=99
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 638180e769..707f1eb2c8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,9 @@ etc/opt
 lib/bash/rose_init_site
 doc
 venv
+
+# coverage
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+coverage.xml
+htmlcov/
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6e8217090a..a6547bd639 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ before_install:
     - ssh-keygen -t 'rsa' -f "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa" -N '' -q
     - cat "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" >>"${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys"
     - ssh-keyscan -t 'rsa' 'localhost' >>"${HOME}/.ssh/known_hosts"
+    # Coverage dependencies
+    - pip install coverage pytest-cov
 
-install: 
+install:
     - >
         sudo apt-get install -y at build-essential gfortran heirloom-mailx
         python-pip python-dev graphviz libgraphviz-dev python-jinja2
@@ -32,14 +34,16 @@ install:
     - sudo apt-get update
     - sudo apt-get install -y subversion
 
-script: skip
-
 jobs:
     include:
         - stage: test
-        - script: >
-            rose test-battery --state=save -j 5 ||
-            (echo -e "\n\nRerunning Failed Tests...\n\n";
-            rose test-battery -v --state=save,failed -j 5)
-        - script: >
-            rose make-docs --venv --dev --strict clean linkcheck doctest html slides latexpdf
+        - script:
+            - export COVERAGE_PROCESS_START="${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/.coveragerc"
+            - export PYTHONPATH="${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/.travis"
+            - coverage run .travis/cover.py
+            - unset PYTHONPATH
+        - script:
+            - rose make-docs --venv --dev --strict clean linkcheck doctest html slides latexpdf
+        - after_success:
+            - coverage xml --ignore-errors
+            - bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash)
diff --git a/.travis/cover.py b/.travis/cover.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d3e9344194
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis/cover.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# (C) British Crown Copyright 2012-8 Met Office.
+#
+# This file is part of Rose, a framework for meteorological suites.
+#
+# Rose is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Rose is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Rose. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+from subprocess import call
+
+
+def main():
+    call(
+        'rose test-battery --state=save -j 5 || (echo -e "\n\nRerunning Failed Tests...\n\n"; rose test-battery -v --state=save,failed -j 5)',
+        shell=True)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/.travis/sitecustomize.py b/.travis/sitecustomize.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9328aacce1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis/sitecustomize.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# (C) British Crown Copyright 2012-8 Met Office.
+#
+# This file is part of Rose, a framework for meteorological suites.
+#
+# Rose is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Rose is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Rose. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+"""This file is used by Travis-CI to start the coverage process. In order to make
+Python aware of it, we export PYTHONPATH when running the tests"""
+
+
+import coverage
+
+coverage.process_startup()