A companion to the built-in nose.plugins.cover, this plugin will write out an XML coverage report to a file named coverage.xml.

It will honor all the options you pass to the Nose coverage plugin, especially --cover-package.

You can not use both --with-xcover and --with-coverage. Using --with-xcover implies --with-coverage

As of nose-xcover 1.0.6 --with-xcoverage provides all the functionality of the built-in coverage plugin in addition to Cobertura-style output:

#nosetests --with-xcoverage {{ coverage options }}
nosetests --with-xcoverage --cover-package=myapp --cover-tests