After much googling, I came across this issue, which solved my problem, but which I believe still needs to be documented. Namely, adding [html] show_context = True Will allow context reporting in the html report without having to run coverage separately. The issue is still open because @brutledge was still discussing whether to make pytest-cov do this automatically. Feel free to make a PR with the docs change. _Originally posted by @ionelmc in https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/371#issuecomment-690940978_