diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 88355947e03e65cb5d97a771e82899eb7502935e..2ce603d35f68cc2643cb2bc8e4c5d07c368dfbd5 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ trigger_prepare:
     include: "{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.prepare.gitlab-ci.yml"
 
 default:
+  # Bootstrap Cookiecutter template to test provided ci pipeline template
   before_script:
     - python --version # For debugging
-    - cookiecutter --no-input --overwrite-if-exists -output-dir .
+    - cookiecutter --no-input --overwrite-if-exists --output-dir . .
+    - cd my_awesome_app
+    - git init
+
+# Override artifact directories
+run_unit_tests_coverage:
+  artifacts:
+    reports:
+      coverage_report:
+        coverage_format: cobertura
+        path: my_awesome_app/coverage.xml
+    paths:
+      - my_awesome_app/htmlcov/*
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34766ecd393f8d7576daa7e188159de3433041b5..4ca5706d6538a159d9333c68b054baae61542c01 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Example Python Package
 
+![Build status](https://git.astron.nl/templates/python-package/badges/main/pipeline.svg)
+![Test coverage](https://git.astron.nl/templates/python-package/badges/main/coverage.svg)
+
 An example repository of an CI/CD pipeline for building, testing and publishing a python package.
 
 If you find some missing functionality with regards to CI/CD, testing, linting or something else, feel free to make a merge request with the proposed changes.
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml
index af7749c58d7d7abf2ca7391d076bdeb87bee6a8f..ead4cc5f552641f2afa4599d8f743e44e6ba2196 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ run_unit_tests_coverage:
   stage: test
   script:
    - tox -e coverage
+  coverage: '/(?i)total.*? (100(?:\.0+)?\%|[1-9]?\d(?:\.\d+)?\%)$/'
   artifacts:
     reports:
       coverage_report:
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.md b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.md
index e0127fbcf6b4c34242ac4d4ea59c76f0cfa7ba9e..4a0ae9083c5f75f291e3e193972b9e5aabe5651e 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.md
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # {{cookiecutter.project_name}}
 
+<!-- TODO: replace  -->
+![Build status](https://git.astron.nl/templates/python-package/badges/main/pipeline.svg)
+![Test coverage](https://git.astron.nl/templates/python-package/badges/main/coverage.svg)
+<!-- ![Latest release](https://git.astron.nl/templates/python-package/badges/main/release.svg) -->
+
 An example repository of an CI/CD pipeline for building, testing and publishing a python package.
 
 ## Installation
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/tox.ini b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/tox.ini
index 0beb24ceb93ab7f2e5949512d7aedfcced0f2e6a..389403d52064a498216d8eb281afa0e60af09d6a 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/tox.ini
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/tox.ini
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ commands =
 [testenv:coverage]
 commands =
     {envpython} --version
-    {envpython} -m pytest --cov-report xml --cov-report html --cov={{cookiecutter.project_slug}}
+    {envpython} -m pytest --cov-report term --cov-report xml --cov-report html --cov={{cookiecutter.project_slug}}
 
 # Use generative name and command prefixes to reuse the same virtualenv
 # for all linting jobs.