diff --git a/livesync/.coveragerc b/livesync/.coveragerc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0af9e1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/livesync/.coveragerc
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[run]
+branch = true
+include = indico_*
+
+
+[report]
+exclude_lines =
+    pragma: no cover
+    def __repr__
diff --git a/livesync/.gitignore b/livesync/.gitignore
index 4ae66f6..718c0c5 100644
--- a/livesync/.gitignore
+++ b/livesync/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@
 *.min.js
 *.pyc
 *.egg-info
+.coverage
+htmlcov/
diff --git a/livesync/indico_livesync/uploader.py b/livesync/indico_livesync/uploader.py
index 957a114..364d12a 100644
--- a/livesync/indico_livesync/uploader.py
+++ b/livesync/indico_livesync/uploader.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class Uploader(object):
         :param from_queue: if `records` contains queue entries.
                            expect events if it is False.
         """
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        raise NotImplementedError  # pragma: no cover
 
     def processed_records(self, records):
         """Executed after successfully uploading a batch of records from the queue.
@@ -87,4 +87,4 @@ class MARCXMLUploader(Uploader):
 
     def upload_xml(self, xml):
         """Receives MARCXML strings to be uploaded"""
-        raise NotImplementedError
+        raise NotImplementedError  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/livesync/pytest.ini b/livesync/pytest.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c6e352
--- /dev/null
+++ b/livesync/pytest.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[pytest]
+; more verbose summary (include skip/fail/error/warning), coverage
+addopts = -rsfEw --cov . --cov-report html --no-cov-on-fail
+; only check for tests in suffixed files
+python_files = *_test.py