diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index 44b8c467a23f7cb84cb99391040679c05c4bd54b..596d280140a76961f2a30d0a1bd47ef89bd0698d 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # .coveragerc for edx-platform
 [run]
-data_file = reports/.coverage
+data_file = reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage
 source =
     cms
     common/djangoapps
diff --git a/pavelib/utils/test/suites/suite.py b/pavelib/utils/test/suites/suite.py
index f6c9bea561426e9cdef9677817c9eeafd14ca009..f23e371057ae657b2a9e67b6896d272e6b8c53dc 100644
--- a/pavelib/utils/test/suites/suite.py
+++ b/pavelib/utils/test/suites/suite.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ A class used for defining and running test suites
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
 
+import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
@@ -93,6 +94,8 @@ class TestSuite(object):
         sys.stdout.write(msg)
         sys.stdout.flush()
 
+        if 'TEST_SUITE' not in os.environ:
+            os.environ['TEST_SUITE'] = self.root.replace("/", "_")
         kwargs = {'shell': True, 'cwd': None}
         process = None
 
diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index b884cce929f910175f16d0577ea0648b4749ba3f..59b25ee51302c4ddcd8c3bf9817de180ad7799e6 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -72,3 +72,6 @@ ruamel.ordereddict; python_version == "2.7"
 
 # 1.16.1 requires djangorestframework>=3.8
 drf-yasg==1.16
+
+# 2.0.0 is a dummy package, because faulthandler has been incorporated into pytest 5.0
+pytest-faulthandler<2.0.0
diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 789b02dd35e93372da9fd8ff7f620a2da8ce4483..db24e05dc604c4ae91c552ddb3f6761cc0961dc9 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ asn1crypto==0.24.0
 attrs==17.4.0
 babel==1.3
 backports.functools-lru-cache==1.5  # via soupsieve
-beautifulsoup4==4.7.1     # via pynliner
+beautifulsoup4==4.8.0     # via pynliner
 billiard==3.3.0.23        # via celery
 bleach==2.1.4
 boto3==1.4.8
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ edx-django-oauth2-provider==1.3.5
 edx-django-release-util==0.3.1
 edx-django-sites-extensions==2.3.1
 edx-django-utils==2.0.0
-edx-drf-extensions==2.3.5
+edx-drf-extensions==2.3.6
 edx-enterprise==1.7.3
 edx-i18n-tools==0.4.8
 edx-milestones==0.2.3
diff --git a/requirements/edx/coverage.in b/requirements/edx/coverage.in
index a0c036431a0a74ff4db8b3edfa68e8715dd01baf..5faf6d8fe083e849ed9599f45652b4f2c77578cf 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/coverage.in
+++ b/requirements/edx/coverage.in
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@
 
 -c ../constraints.txt
 
-coverage==4.4                       # Code coverage testing for Python
+coverage==5.0a6                     # Code coverage testing for Python
 diff-cover==0.9.8                   # Automatically find diff lines that need test coverage
 six==1.11.0                         # Pinned because diff-cover needs it, but later transifex-client says ==1.11.0
diff --git a/requirements/edx/coverage.txt b/requirements/edx/coverage.txt
index 09cbd1446f9b5868b61d22da4ef2a3284203ad78..47f4fd93356beafd22763986cab656703a071c33 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/coverage.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/coverage.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 #    make upgrade
 #
-coverage==4.4
+coverage==5.0a6
 diff-cover==0.9.8
 inflect==2.1.0            # via jinja2-pluralize
 jinja2-pluralize==0.3.0   # via diff-cover
diff --git a/requirements/edx/development.txt b/requirements/edx/development.txt
index 44d4ba90675f1d82d2f6415c92f9f483d14c3144..f56a572dc7abbfa8e25666dbd56c51c286f6e2ad 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/development.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/development.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ atomicwrites==1.3.0
 attrs==17.4.0
 babel==1.3
 backports.functools-lru-cache==1.5
-beautifulsoup4==4.7.1
+beautifulsoup4==4.8.0
 before-after==1.0.1
 billiard==3.3.0.23
 bleach==2.1.4
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ configparser==3.7.4
 contextlib2==0.5.5
 coreapi==2.3.3
 coreschema==0.0.4
-coverage==4.4
+coverage==5.0a6
+git+https://github.com/nedbat/coverage_pytest_plugin.git@29de030251471e200ff255eb9e549218cd60e872#egg=coverage_pytest_plugin==0.0
 git+https://github.com/edx/crowdsourcehinter.git@518605f0a95190949fe77bd39158450639e2e1dc#egg=crowdsourcehinter-xblock==0.1
 cryptography==2.7
 cssselect==1.0.3
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ edx-django-oauth2-provider==1.3.5
 edx-django-release-util==0.3.1
 edx-django-sites-extensions==2.3.1
 edx-django-utils==2.0.0
-edx-drf-extensions==2.3.5
+edx-drf-extensions==2.3.6
 edx-enterprise==1.7.3
 edx-i18n-tools==0.4.8
 edx-lint==1.3.0
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ event-tracking==0.2.9
 execnet==1.6.0
 factory_boy==2.8.1
 faker==2.0.0
+faulthandler==3.1
 feedparser==5.1.3
 filelock==3.0.12
 firebase-token-generator==1.3.2
@@ -256,8 +258,9 @@ pyquery==1.4.0
 pysqlite==2.8.3 ; python_version == "2.7"
 pysrt==1.1.1
 pytest-attrib==0.1.3
-pytest-cov==2.7.1
+git+https://github.com/nedbat/pytest-cov.git@nedbat/cov5-combine#egg=pytest-cov==0.0
 pytest-django==3.5.1
+pytest-faulthandler==1.6.0
 pytest-forked==1.0.2
 pytest-randomly==1.2.3
 pytest-xdist==1.29.0
@@ -319,6 +322,7 @@ transifex-client==0.13.6
 typing==3.7.4
 unicodecsv==0.14.1
 unidecode==1.1.1
+unidiff==0.5.5
 uritemplate==3.0.0
 urllib3==1.23
 user-util==0.1.5
diff --git a/requirements/edx/testing.in b/requirements/edx/testing.in
index e72e3d6e0c3fa6c371c73c6f507481eaabfb8ba3..742525f6ad60829e9617afc5f00742ec6baf2bdf 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/testing.in
+++ b/requirements/edx/testing.in
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ pyquery                   # jQuery-like API for retrieving fragments of HTML and
 pysqlite                  # DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite 3.x (used as the relational database for most tests)
 pytest                    # Testing framework
 pytest-attrib             # Select tests based on attributes
-pytest-cov                # pytest plugin for measuring code coverage.
+git+https://github.com/nedbat/pytest-cov.git@nedbat/cov5-combine#egg=pytest-cov==0.0
+git+https://github.com/nedbat/coverage_pytest_plugin.git@29de030251471e200ff255eb9e549218cd60e872#egg=coverage_pytest_plugin==0.0
+pytest-faulthandler       # Report on serious crashes
 pytest-django             # Django support for pytest
 pytest-randomly           # pytest plugin to randomly order tests
 pytest-xdist              # Parallel execution of tests on multiple CPU cores or hosts
@@ -48,3 +50,5 @@ testfixtures              # Provides a LogCapture utility used by several tests
 tox                       # virtualenv management for tests
 tox-battery               # Makes tox aware of requirements file changes
 transifex-client          # Command-line interface for the Transifex localization service
+unidiff                   # Required by coverage_pytest_plugin
+
diff --git a/requirements/edx/testing.txt b/requirements/edx/testing.txt
index d38e7197bf6b36a7a2f066ae133c98e77c44fcf2..c6f2fdab4b9ea1e2a06ffc2bd6811d9cb95350c4 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/testing.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/testing.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ atomicwrites==1.3.0       # via pytest
 attrs==17.4.0
 babel==1.3
 backports.functools-lru-cache==1.5
-beautifulsoup4==4.7.1
+beautifulsoup4==4.8.0
 before-after==1.0.1
 billiard==3.3.0.23
 bleach==2.1.4
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ configparser==3.7.4       # via entrypoints, flake8, importlib-metadata, pylint
 contextlib2==0.5.5        # via importlib-metadata
 coreapi==2.3.3
 coreschema==0.0.4
-coverage==4.4
+coverage==5.0a6
+git+https://github.com/nedbat/coverage_pytest_plugin.git@29de030251471e200ff255eb9e549218cd60e872#egg=coverage_pytest_plugin==0.0
 git+https://github.com/edx/crowdsourcehinter.git@518605f0a95190949fe77bd39158450639e2e1dc#egg=crowdsourcehinter-xblock==0.1
 cryptography==2.7
 cssselect==1.0.3
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ edx-django-oauth2-provider==1.3.5
 edx-django-release-util==0.3.1
 edx-django-sites-extensions==2.3.1
 edx-django-utils==2.0.0
-edx-drf-extensions==2.3.5
+edx-drf-extensions==2.3.6
 edx-enterprise==1.7.3
 edx-i18n-tools==0.4.8
 edx-lint==1.3.0
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ event-tracking==0.2.9
 execnet==1.6.0            # via pytest-xdist
 factory_boy==2.8.1
 faker==2.0.0              # via factory-boy
+faulthandler==3.1         # via pytest-faulthandler
 feedparser==5.1.3
 filelock==3.0.12          # via tox
 firebase-token-generator==1.3.2
@@ -247,8 +249,9 @@ pyquery==1.4.0
 pysqlite==2.8.3 ; python_version == "2.7"
 pysrt==1.1.1
 pytest-attrib==0.1.3
-pytest-cov==2.7.1
+git+https://github.com/nedbat/pytest-cov.git@nedbat/cov5-combine#egg=pytest-cov==0.0
 pytest-django==3.5.1
+pytest-faulthandler==1.6.0
 pytest-forked==1.0.2      # via pytest-xdist
 pytest-randomly==1.2.3
 pytest-xdist==1.29.0
@@ -306,6 +309,7 @@ transifex-client==0.13.6
 typing==3.7.4             # via flake8
 unicodecsv==0.14.1
 unidecode==1.1.1          # via python-slugify
+unidiff==0.5.5
 uritemplate==3.0.0
 urllib3==1.23
 user-util==0.1.5
diff --git a/scripts/unit-tests.sh b/scripts/unit-tests.sh
index 93aa2b0bda70516ba9b8291e37fcde67d1a2391d..c70ef2280ebc6544656579cb8c468bd5def73bb8 100755
--- a/scripts/unit-tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/unit-tests.sh
@@ -56,15 +56,15 @@ case "${TEST_SUITE}" in
         case "$SHARD" in
             "all")
                 paver test_system -s lms --disable_capture ${PAVER_ARGS} ${PARALLEL} 2> lms-tests.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.lms
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.lms
                 ;;
             [1-9])
                 paver test_system -s lms --disable_capture --eval-attr="shard==$SHARD" ${PAVER_ARGS} ${PARALLEL} 2> lms-tests.${SHARD}.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.lms.${SHARD}
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.lms.${SHARD}
                 ;;
             10|"noshard")
                 paver test_system -s lms --disable_capture --eval-attr="shard>=$SHARD or not shard" ${PAVER_ARGS} ${PARALLEL} 2> lms-tests.10.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.lms.10
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.lms.10
                 ;;
             *)
                 # If no shard is specified, rather than running all tests, create an empty xunit file. This is a
@@ -81,15 +81,15 @@ case "${TEST_SUITE}" in
         case "$SHARD" in
             "all")
                 paver test_system -s cms --disable_capture ${PAVER_ARGS} ${PARALLEL} 2> cms-tests.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.cms
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.cms
                 ;;
             1)
                 paver test_system -s cms --disable_capture --eval-attr="shard==$SHARD" ${PAVER_ARGS} 2> cms-tests.${SHARD}.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.cms.${SHARD}
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.cms.${SHARD}
                 ;;
             2|"noshard")
                 paver test_system -s cms --disable_capture --eval-attr="shard>=$SHARD or not shard" ${PAVER_ARGS} 2> cms-tests.2.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.cms.2
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.cms.2
                 ;;
             *)
                 # If no shard is specified, rather than running all tests, create an empty xunit file. This is a
@@ -106,15 +106,15 @@ case "${TEST_SUITE}" in
         case "$SHARD" in
             "all")
                 paver test_lib --disable_capture ${PAVER_ARGS} ${PARALLEL} 2> common-tests.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.commonlib
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.commonlib
                 ;;
             [1-2])
                 paver test_lib -l common/lib/xmodule --disable_capture --eval-attr="shard==$SHARD" ${PAVER_ARGS} 2> common-tests.${SHARD}.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.commonlib.${SHARD}
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.commonlib.${SHARD}
                 ;;
             3|"noshard")
                 paver test_lib --disable_capture --eval-attr="shard>=$SHARD or not shard" ${PAVER_ARGS} 2> common-tests.3.log
-                mv reports/.coverage reports/.coverage.commonlib.3
+                mv reports/${TEST_SUITE}.coverage reports/.coverage.commonlib.3
                 ;;
             *)
                 # If no shard is specified, rather than running all tests, create an empty xunit file. This is a