diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f41d978398d2f12d4043fda7a7a8bfae366ab4ed..67e905a6c8c05283fbd8d73646c860d8428328b3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ variables:
   EXIT_CODE_NON_BE: 123
   EXIT_CODE_FAIL: 1
   LONG_TEST_SUITE: "tests/codec_be_on_mr_nonselection tests/renderer --param_file scripts/config/self_test_ltv.prm --use_ltv"
+  LONG_TEST_SUITE_NO_RENDERER: "tests/codec_be_on_mr_nonselection --param_file scripts/config/self_test_ltv.prm --use_ltv"
   SHORT_TEST_SUITE: "tests/codec_be_on_mr_nonselection"
   TEST_SUITE: ""
   DUT_ENCODER_PATH: "./IVAS_cod"
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ variables:
       - 'sanitizer-stv'
       - 'pytest-renderer'
       - 'complexity'
+      - 'coverage'
       - 'voip-be-test'
 
 
@@ -115,20 +117,25 @@ stages:
     echo "Commit time was $CI_COMMIT_TIMESTAMP"
     date | xargs echo "System time is"
 
-.build-reference-and-dut-binaries: &build-reference-and-dut-binaries
-  - current_commit_sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-  ### build reference binaries
-  - git checkout $REFERENCE_BRANCH
-  - git pull
-  - make clean
-  - make -j
-  - mv ./IVAS_cod ./$REF_ENCODER_PATH
-  - mv ./IVAS_dec ./$REF_DECODER_PATH
-  - mv ./IVAS_rend ./IVAS_rend_ref
+.build-reference-binaries: &build-reference-binaries
+- current_commit_sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+### build reference binaries
+- git checkout $REFERENCE_BRANCH
+- git pull
+- make clean
+- make -j
+- mv ./IVAS_cod ./$REF_ENCODER_PATH
+- mv ./IVAS_dec ./$REF_DECODER_PATH
+- mv ./IVAS_rend ./IVAS_rend_ref
+### Return to current branch
+- git restore .
+- git checkout $current_commit_sha
 
-  ### build test binaries
-  - git restore .
-  - git checkout $current_commit_sha
+
+.build-reference-and-dut-binaries: &build-reference-and-dut-binaries
+### build reference binaries
+  - *build-reference-binaries
+### build dut binaries
   - make clean
   - make -j
 
@@ -216,6 +223,15 @@ stages:
     - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == 'merge_request_event'
       when: never
 
+.rules-coverage:
+  rules:
+    - if: $COVERAGE_TEST # Set by scheduled pipeline
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == 'web' && $MANUAL_PIPELINE_TYPE == "coverage"
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == 'push'
+      when: never
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == 'merge_request_event'
+      when: never
+
 .rules-pytest-saturation-smoke-test:
   rules:
     - if: $PYTEST_SMOKE_TEST # Set by scheduled pipeline
@@ -1000,6 +1016,60 @@ ivas-smoke-test-saturation:
       - smoke_test_output_hrtf.txt
     expose_as: "saturation smoke test results"
 
+
+# GCOV/LCOV coverage analysis of self_test suite
+coverage-test-on-main-scheduled:
+  extends:
+    - .test-job-linux
+    - .rules-coverage
+  stage: test
+  timeout: 3 hours
+  script:
+    - *print-common-info
+    - *update-scripts-repo    
+    - *update-ltv-repo
+    - *copy-ltv-files-to-testv-dir
+    - *build-reference-binaries
+    # Build DuT binaries with GCOV
+    - make clean
+    - make GCOV=1 -j
+    - cp IVAS_rend IVAS_rend_ref # Copy to ensure instrumented renderer is run in the first pytest call
+
+    - testcase_timeout=$TESTCASE_TIMEOUT_LTV
+    - exit_code_dec=0
+    - exit_code_enc=0
+    - python3 -m pytest --tb=no tests/codec_be_on_mr_nonselection tests/renderer --update_ref 1 -v --create_ref --html=report-dec.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml=report-junit-dec.xml -n auto --testcase_timeout $testcase_timeout --ref_encoder_path $REF_ENCODER_PATH --ref_decoder_path $DUT_DECODER_PATH  || exit_code_dec=$?
+    - lcov -c -d obj -o coverage_dec_rend.info # extract coverage of decoder/renderer
+
+    - python3 -m pytest --tb=no tests/codec_be_on_mr_nonselection --encoder_only -v  --html=report-enc.html --self-contained-html --junit-xml=report-junit-enc.xml -n auto --testcase_timeout $testcase_timeout --dut_encoder_path $DUT_ENCODER_PATH || exit_code_enc=$?
+    - lcov -c -d obj -o coverage_enc_dec_rend.info # extract coverage of encoder/decoder/renderer
+
+    # remove apps and lib_util files from coverage
+    - lcov -r coverage_dec_rend.info "*apps*" -o coverage_dec_rend.info
+    - lcov -r coverage_dec_rend.info "*lib_util*" -o coverage_dec_rend.info
+    - lcov -r coverage_enc_dec_rend.info "*apps*" -o coverage_enc_dec_rend.info
+    - lcov -r coverage_enc_dec_rend.info "*lib_util*" -o coverage_enc_dec_rend.info
+
+    - commit_sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+    - genhtml coverage_enc_dec_rend.info -o coverage_enc_dec_rend -t "Coverage on main enc/dec/rend @ $commit_sha"
+    - genhtml coverage_dec_rend.info -o coverage_dec_rend -t "Coverage on main -- dec/rend @ $commit_sha"
+  artifacts:
+    name: "main-coverage-sha-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA"
+    when: always
+    expire_in: 1 week
+    paths:
+      - coverage_enc_dec_rend.info
+      - coverage_dec_rend.info
+      - coverage_enc_dec_rend
+      - coverage_dec_rend
+      - report-dec.html
+      - report-enc.html
+    expose_as: "Coverage result"
+    reports:
+      junit:
+        - report-junit-dec.xml
+        - report-junit-enc.xml
+
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 # EVS 26.444 test job
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