diff --git a/opal/scaffolding/plugin_scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2 b/opal/scaffolding/plugin_scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2
index 5bc5196b1..3dd69be5d 100644
--- a/opal/scaffolding/plugin_scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2
+++ b/opal/scaffolding/plugin_scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 python-dateutil==2.7.55
 django-compressor==2.5
 opal=={{ version }}
+coverage==3.6
diff --git a/opal/scaffolding/scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2 b/opal/scaffolding/scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2
index 855f1dccb..1a3244c50 100644
--- a/opal/scaffolding/scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2
+++ b/opal/scaffolding/scaffold/requirements.txt.jinja2
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # cryptography is required for heroku deployment
+coverage==3.6
 django==2.0.13
 dj-database-url==0.2.1
 gunicorn==0.17.4