diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ec7f80d2f9..fb1f8c9541 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ script:
 
 after_success:
   - coverage report
-  - codecov
+  # disable auto coverage bc it isn't accurate since it misses gpu code.
+  # to get coverage, run local and push results
+  # - codecov
 
 notifications:
   email: false
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 57c6294d4d..ad03a4786b 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ test_script:
 
 on_success:
   - coverage report
-  - codecov
+  # - codecov
diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
index a121ff1414..032cf04f1d 100644
--- a/tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pip install -e .
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 # run tests
-py.test
+py.test -v
 ```
 
 To test models that require GPU make sure to run the above command on a GPU machine.
@@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ cd pytorch-lightning
 
 # generate coverage 
 pip install coverage
-coverage run tests/test_models.py   
+coverage run --source pytorch_lightning -m py.test pytorch_lightning tests examples -v --doctest-modules
 
 # print coverage stats
-coverage report -m   
+coverage report -m
+
+# exporting resulys
+coverage xml
+codecov -t 17327163-8cca-4a5d-86c8-ca5f2ef700bc  -v
 ```
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_models.py b/tests/test_models.py
index 044f2391bb..cd03d8b411 100644
--- a/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/tests/test_models.py
@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@
 import os
 import shutil
 import warnings
+from argparse import Namespace
 
 import pytest
 import numpy as np
 import torch
-from pytorch_lightning import Trainer
-from examples import LightningTemplateModel
-from pytorch_lightning.testing.lm_test_module import LightningTestModel
-from argparse import Namespace
 from test_tube import Experiment, SlurmCluster
+
+# sys.path += [os.path.abspath('..'), os.path.abspath('../..')]
+from pytorch_lightning import Trainer
+from pytorch_lightning.testing.lm_test_module import LightningTestModel
 from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint, EarlyStopping
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.debugging import MisconfigurationException
 from pytorch_lightning.root_module import memory
 from pytorch_lightning.models.trainer import reduce_distributed_output
 from pytorch_lightning.root_module import model_saving
+from examples import LightningTemplateModel
 
 SEED = 2334
 torch.manual_seed(SEED)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 111bae586d..a91ac5efce 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ deps =
 commands =
     check-manifest --ignore tox.ini
     python setup.py check -m -s
-    # disable auto coverage bc it isn't accurate since it misses gpu code.
-    # to get coverage, run local and push results
-    # coverage run --source pytorch_lightning -m py.test pytorch_lightning tests examples -v --doctest-modules
+    coverage run --source pytorch_lightning -m py.test pytorch_lightning tests examples -v --doctest-modules
     flake8 .
 
 [flake8]