diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5a9500ce..475d90c7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 All enhancements and patches to cookiecutter-django will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [2015-11-06]
+### Changed
+- Added *tests* to `.coveragerc`, because including it is cheating! (@pydanny)
+
 ## [2015-11-05]
 ### Changed
 - Update version of django-extensions (@luzfcb)
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc
index 403f3303..0354b3c1 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [run]
 include = {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/*
-omit = *migrations*
+omit = *migrations*, *tests*