diff --git a/tools/test-backend b/tools/test-backend
index 1e5aa61706..736e6e63e1 100755
--- a/tools/test-backend
+++ b/tools/test-backend
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser.add_option('--coverage', dest='coverage',
                       action="store_true",
                       default=False, help='Compute test coverage.')
-    parser.add_option('--no-verbose-coverage', dest='verbose_coverage',
-                      action="store_false",
-                      default=True, help='Disable verbose print of coverage report.')
+    parser.add_option('--verbose-coverage', dest='verbose_coverage',
+                      action="store_true",
+                      default=False, help='Enable verbose print of coverage report.')
     parser.add_option('--profile', dest='profile',
                       action="store_true",
                       default=False, help='Profile test runtime.')
diff --git a/tools/travis/backend b/tools/travis/backend
index 2905ec3395..cf5305ad5d 100755
--- a/tools/travis/backend
+++ b/tools/travis/backend
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ set -e
 set -x
 
 ./tools/lint-all --pep8 # Include the slow and thus non-default pep8 linter check
-./tools/test-backend --coverage --no-verbose-coverage
+./tools/test-backend --coverage
 ./tools/test-migrations
 ./tools/test-run-dev
 ./tools/test-documentation