diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index e07f20e53..55d9492fa 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
 test_template: &test
+  environment:
+    CODECOV_TOKEN: ENCRYPTED[e18180139fa0a70726bb6f8dfbbc9fd53da36e6a4d2b449e30f99a255fdfdab63863117e8b6665deb06dd99d95e5aaad]
   test_script:
     - command -v python3
     - python3 --version
-    - python3 -m pip install .[test]
-    - python3 -m pytest
+    - python3 -m pip install .[test] pytest-codecov
+    - python3 -m pytest --showlocals -vv --cov --cov-report=xml:coverage-$CIRRUS_TASK_NAME.xml --codecov
 
 alpine-3_task:
   container:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b0c55a038..949e5994c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -104,6 +104,18 @@ known_first_party = 'mesonpy'
 disable_warnings = [
   'couldnt-parse',
 ]
+source = ['.']
+omit = [
+  'tests/packages/*',
+]
+
+[tool.coverage.report]
+ignore_errors = true
+exclude_lines = [
+  '\#\s*pragma: no cover',  # we need this because this field overrides the default
+  '^\s*raise NotImplementedError\b',
+  '^\sif typing.TYPE_CHECKING',
+]
 
 [tool.coverage.html]
 show_contexts = true