diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
index 786232f5..089e0716 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ To create an **superuser account**, use this command::
 
 For convenience, you can keep your normal user logged in on Chrome and your superuser logged in on Firefox (or similar), so that you can see how the site behaves for both kinds of users.
 
+Test coverage
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To run the tests, check your test coverage, and generate an HTML coverage report::
+
+    $ coverage run manage.py test
+    $ coverage html --include={{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/*
+
 Live reloading and Sass CSS compilation
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^