diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9fcf7e08701773..7ab4a3c70f6e7b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ coverage-test: coverage-build
 	$(RM) out/$(BUILDTYPE)/obj.target/node_lib/gen/*.gcda
 	$(RM) out/$(BUILDTYPE)/obj.target/node_lib/src/*.gcda
 	$(RM) out/$(BUILDTYPE)/obj.target/node_lib/src/tracing/*.gcda
-	-NODE_V8_COVERAGE=out/$(BUILDTYPE)/.coverage $(MAKE) $(COVTESTS)
+	-NODE_V8_COVERAGE=out/$(BUILDTYPE)/.coverage \
+                TEST_CI_ARGS="$(TEST_CI_ARGS) --type=coverage" $(MAKE) $(COVTESTS)
 	$(MAKE) coverage-report-js
 	-(cd out && "../gcovr/scripts/gcovr" --gcov-exclude='.*deps' \
 		--gcov-exclude='.*usr' -v -r Release/obj.target \
@@ -277,7 +278,7 @@ coverage-run-js:
 	$(RM) -r out/$(BUILDTYPE)/.coverage
 	$(MAKE) coverage-build-js
 	-NODE_V8_COVERAGE=out/$(BUILDTYPE)/.coverage CI_SKIP_TESTS=$(COV_SKIP_TESTS) \
-	  $(MAKE) jstest
+	        TEST_CI_ARGS="$(TEST_CI_ARGS) --type=coverage" $(MAKE) jstest
 	$(MAKE) coverage-report-js
 
 .PHONY: test
diff --git a/test/root.status b/test/root.status
index e5dd389cae0424..6d5bc44491c310 100644
--- a/test/root.status
+++ b/test/root.status
@@ -159,3 +159,7 @@ sequential/test-inspector-port-cluster: SLOW
 sequential/test-net-bytes-per-incoming-chunk-overhead: SLOW
 sequential/test-pipe: SLOW
 sequential/test-util-debug: SLOW
+
+[$type==coverage]
+js-native-api/test_function/test: PASS,FAIL,CRASH
+js-native-api/test_general/testFinalizer: PASS,FAIL,CRASH
diff --git a/tools/test.py b/tools/test.py
index 56b1c8d650bc4f..4ac8d0e631ce16 100755
--- a/tools/test.py
+++ b/tools/test.py
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ def BuildOptions():
       help='Send SIGABRT instead of SIGTERM to kill processes that time out',
       default=False, action="store_true", dest="abort_on_timeout")
   result.add_option("--type",
-      help="Type of build (simple, fips)",
+      help="Type of build (simple, fips, coverage)",
       default=None)
   return result