Example github workflow with code coverage badge production.

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 One way to accomplish the above is to add badges to your project's README file.
 - Use https://pkg.go.dev/badge/ to create the pkg.go.dev link.
 - Go to https://goreportcard.com/ to generate a Go Report Card report, then click on the report badge in the upper right corner to see details on how to add the badge to your README.
-- Codecov, coveralls, and gocover all offer ways to create badges for code coverage reports. Another option is to generate a badge as part of a continuous integration process.
+- Codecov, coveralls, and gocover all offer ways to create badges for code coverage reports. Another option is to generate a badge as part of a continuous integration process. See [Code Coverage](COVERAGE.md) for an example.
 
 ## How to add an item to the list
 

COVERAGE.md

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+# Code Coverage
+
+While we recommend using one of the free websites available for monitoring code coverage
+during your continuous integration process, below is an example of how you can incorporate
+code coverage during the continuous integration process provided by github actions and 
+generate a code coverage report without one of those services.
+
+This yaml file will run tests on multiple system configurations, but will produce
+a code coverage report on only one of those. It will then create a code coverage badge
+and add it to the Readme file.
+
+This file should be put in the .github/workflows directory of your repo. 
+
+```yaml
+name: Go  # The name of the workflow that will appear on Github
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+
+  build:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
+        go: [1.16, 1.17]
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Set up Go
+      uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+      with:
+        go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
+
+    - name: Build
+      run: go install
+
+    - name: Test
+      run: |
+        go test -v -cover ./... -coverprofile coverage.out -coverpkg ./...
+        go tool cover -func coverage.out -o coverage.out  # Replaces coverage.out with the analysis of coverage.out
+
+    - name: Go Coverage Badge
+      uses: tj-actions/coverage-badge-go@v1
+      if: ${{ runner.os == 'Linux' && matrix.go == '1.17' }} # Runs this on only one of the ci builds.
+      with:
+        green: 80
+        filename: coverage.out
+
+    - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
+      id: auto-commit-action
+      with:
+        commit_message: Apply Code Coverage Badge
+        skip_fetch: true
+        skip_checkout: true
+        file_pattern: ./README.md
+
+    - name: Push Changes
+      if: steps.auto-commit-action.outputs.changes_detected == 'true'
+      uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
+      with:
+        github_token: ${{ github.token }}
+        branch: ${{ github.ref }}
+
+```