diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index 6449c64..04a2664 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ omit =
 
 [report]
 exclude_lines =
-	:nocov:
+  :nocov:
 partial_branches =
   :nobr:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a0095c..6e98694 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ __pycache__/
 # coverage
 /.coverage
 /htmlcov
+/coverage.xml
 
 # tests
 /tests/spec_*/
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 599740f..2f861e4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ examples = [
 [tool.pdm.scripts]
 _.env_file = ".env.toolchain"
 
-test.composite = ["test-code", "test-docs"]
+test.composite = ["test-code", "test-docs", "coverage-xml"]
 test-code.env = {PYTHONWARNINGS = "error"}
 test-code.cmd = "python -m coverage run -m unittest discover -t . -s tests -v"
 test-docs.cmd = "sphinx-build -b doctest docs/ docs/_build"
@@ -94,3 +94,4 @@ document-linkcheck.cmd = "sphinx-build docs/ docs/_linkcheck/ -b linkcheck"
 
 coverage-text.cmd = "python -m coverage report"
 coverage-html.cmd = "python -m coverage html"
+coverage-xml.cmd  = "python -m coverage xml"