diff --git a/.github/workflows/r.yml b/.github/workflows/r.yml
index 2eb3ede..dc14eed 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/r.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/r.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
+permissions:
+  id-token: write # This is required for requesting the JWT
+
 jobs:
   r:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -23,13 +26,43 @@ jobs:
         with:
           sparse-checkout: |
             R/remotebmi
-          path: root
-      - name: Move R package to cwd
-        run: shopt -s dotglob && mv root/R/remotebmi/* . && rm -rf root
       - name: Setup R
         uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
+        working-directory: R/remotebmi
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
         with:
-          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck
-          needs: check
+          extra-packages: any::rcmdcheck, any::covr, any::xml2
+          needs: check, coverage
+        working-directory: R/remotebmi
       - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
+        working-directory: R/remotebmi
+      - name: Test coverage
+        working-directory: R/remotebmi
+        run: |
+          cov <- covr::package_coverage(
+            quiet = FALSE,
+            clean = FALSE,
+            install_path = file.path(normalizePath(Sys.getenv("RUNNER_TEMP"), winslash = "/"), "package")
+          )
+          covr::to_cobertura(cov)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+      - uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+        with:
+          fail_ci_if_error: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && true || false }}
+          file: ./R/remotebmi/cobertura.xml
+          plugin: noop
+          disable_search: true
+          use_oidc: true
+      - name: Show testthat output
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+            ## --------------------------------------------------------------------
+            find '${{ runner.temp }}/R/remotebmi/package' -name 'testthat.Rout*' -exec cat '{}' \; || true
+        shell: bash
+  
+      - name: Upload test results
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+            name: coverage-test-failures
+            path: ${{ runner.temp }}/R/remotebmi/package
diff --git a/R/remotebmi/README.md b/R/remotebmi/README.md
index 245474b..ae46cb8 100644
--- a/R/remotebmi/README.md
+++ b/R/remotebmi/README.md
@@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ array([0, 0])
 # Other grid function not needed for walrus
 # And finally
 client.finalize()
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index aa9f9f6..5452660 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Remote BMI
 
+[![Codecov test coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/eWaterCycle/remotebmi/graph/badge.svg)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/eWaterCycle/remotebmi)
 
 The [Basic Model Interface (BMI)](https://bmi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is a standard interface for models. 
 The interface is available in different languages and a [language agnosting version in SIDL](https://github.com/csdms/bmi/blob/stable/bmi.sidl).
diff --git a/codecov.yml b/codecov.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc5f2b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codecov.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+comment:
+  layout: "header, diff, flags, components"  # show component info in the PR comment
+
+component_management:
+  default_rules:  # default rules that will be inherited by all components
+    statuses:
+      - type: project # in this case every component that doens't have a status defined will have a project type one
+        target: auto
+        branches:
+          - "!main"
+  individual_components:
+    - component_id: Python
+      paths:
+        - python/**
+    - component_id: Julia
+      paths:
+        - RemoteBMI.jl/**
+    - component_id: R
+      paths:
+        - R/remotebmi/**