diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/collective/__init__.py b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/collective/__init__.py
index 481747e603921e6bc1c2d3742e57b2df92a73a13..e33662cf0823b8814654175daa741fca5b3b1afe 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/collective/__init__.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/incubate/fleet/collective/__init__.py
@@ -337,6 +337,17 @@ class CollectiveOptimizer(DistributedOptimizer):
                     "with multi nccl comm, please export FLAGS_sync_nccl_allreduce = 0"
                 )
 
+        # NOTE. open sync_batch_norm will hang when use multi num_threads
+        sync_batch_norm = self._strategy.sync_batch_norm
+        if sync_batch_norm is not None and sync_batch_norm is True:
+            self._strategy.nccl_comm_num = 1
+            self._strategy.use_hierarchical_allreduce = False
+            exec_strategy.num_threads = 1
+            logging.warn(
+                "use sync_batch_norm will hang when set num_threads > 1, so "
+                "set num_threads=1, nccl_comm_num=1, use_hierarchical_allreduce=False."
+            )
+
         if self.print_config:
             print("node_num:", node_num, "num_threads:",
                   exec_strategy.num_threads, "use_hierarchical_allreduce:",
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
index 25d73df503feabab6ee661a9ac5318c50abf1e38..9f26e69550676e9705548854899969a44f557ff3 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -128,11 +128,20 @@ function(bash_test_modules TARGET_NAME)
         set(timeout ${bash_test_modules_TIMEOUT})
     endif()
 
-    add_test(NAME ${TARGET_NAME}
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env PYTHONPATH=${PADDLE_BINARY_DIR}/python 
-        TEST_TARGET_NAME=${TARGET_NAME} TEST_TIMEOUT=${timeout} ${bash_test_modules_ENVS}
-        bash ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${bash_test_modules_MODULES}
-        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+    if(WITH_COVERAGE)
+        add_test(NAME ${TARGET_NAME}
+            COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env PYTHONPATH=${PADDLE_BINARY_DIR}/python 
+            TEST_TARGET_NAME=${TARGET_NAME} TEST_TIMEOUT=${timeout} ${bash_test_modules_ENVS}
+            WITH_COVERAGE=ON COVERAGE_FILE=${PADDLE_BINARY_DIR}/python-coverage.data
+            bash ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${bash_test_modules_MODULES}
+            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+    else()
+        add_test(NAME ${TARGET_NAME}
+            COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env PYTHONPATH=${PADDLE_BINARY_DIR}/python 
+            TEST_TARGET_NAME=${TARGET_NAME} TEST_TIMEOUT=${timeout} ${bash_test_modules_ENVS}
+            bash ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${bash_test_modules_MODULES}
+            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+    endif()
 
     if (bash_test_modules_SERIAL)
         set_property(TEST ${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTY RUN_SERIAL 1)
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/dist_test.sh b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/dist_test.sh
index b185ab54a95170c817f1186500831e0f16a6befe..42566f63b68e2c24c459c0bd738455d1ec3bc3da 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/dist_test.sh
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/dist_test.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,15 @@ rm -f ${name}_*.log
 # start the unit test
 run_time=$(( $TEST_TIMEOUT - 10 ))
 echo "run_time: ${run_time}"
-timeout -s SIGKILL ${run_time} python -u ${name}.py > ${name}_run.log 2>&1
+
+if [[ ${WITH_COVERAGE} == "ON" ]]; then
+    PYTHON_EXEC="python -u -m coverage run --branch -p "
+else
+    PYTHON_EXEC="python -u "
+fi
+
+timeout -s SIGKILL ${run_time} ${PYTHON_EXEC} ${name}.py > ${name}_run.log 2>&1
+
 exit_code=$?
 if [[ $exit_code -eq 0 ]]; then
     exit 0
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_base.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_base.py
index f94c6c1184d0a929244ed8213e68a748869c22b7..4288a6c52af1297e00a49f03d9b06998d52d4798 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_base.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_base.py
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ class TestDistRunnerBase(object):
             dist_strategy.use_local_sgd = True
         if args.ut4grad_allreduce:
             dist_strategy._ut4grad_allreduce = True
+        if args.sync_batch_norm:
+            dist_strategy.sync_batch_norm = True
 
         role = role_maker.PaddleCloudRoleMaker(is_collective=True)
         fleet.init(role)
@@ -487,6 +489,7 @@ def runtime_main(test_class):
         required=False,
         type=bool,
         default=False)
+    parser.add_argument('--sync_batch_norm', action='store_true')
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -837,6 +840,8 @@ class TestDistBase(unittest.TestCase):
                 tr_cmd += " --use_local_sgd"
             if self._ut4grad_allreduce:
                 tr_cmd += " --ut4grad_allreduce"
+            if hasattr(self, '_sync_batch_norm') and self._sync_batch_norm:
+                tr_cmd += " --sync_batch_norm"
 
         if os.getenv('WITH_COVERAGE', 'OFF') == 'ON':
             env['COVERAGE_FILE'] = os.getenv('COVERAGE_FILE', '')
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_mnist_fleetapi.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_mnist_fleetapi.py
index 30f8592e1dace21401e29b4e05f7330502f55f47..bc86cba80b8e4b3f11bb2270b94ab441a22ae0ad 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_mnist_fleetapi.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_dist_mnist_fleetapi.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ class TestDistMnistNCCL2FleetApi(TestDistBase):
         self._use_reader_alloc = False
         self._nccl2_mode = True
         self._gpu_fleet_api = True
+        self._sync_batch_norm = True
 
     def test_dist_train(self):
         import paddle.fluid as fluid
@@ -31,5 +32,30 @@ class TestDistMnistNCCL2FleetApi(TestDistBase):
             self.check_with_place("dist_mnist.py", delta=1e-5)
 
 
+class FleetCollectiveTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_open_sync_batch_norm(self):
+        import paddle.fluid as fluid
+        import paddle.fluid.incubate.fleet.base.role_maker as role_maker
+        from paddle.fluid.incubate.fleet.collective import fleet, DistributedStrategy
+
+        data = fluid.layers.data(name='X', shape=[1], dtype='float32')
+        hidden = fluid.layers.fc(input=data, size=10)
+        loss = fluid.layers.mean(hidden)
+
+        optimizer = fluid.optimizer.AdamOptimizer()
+
+        role = role_maker.UserDefinedCollectiveRoleMaker(0, ['127.0.0.1:6170'])
+        fleet.init(role)
+
+        dist_strategy = DistributedStrategy()
+        dist_strategy.sync_batch_norm = True
+
+        dist_optimizer = fleet.distributed_optimizer(
+            optimizer, strategy=dist_strategy)
+        dist_optimizer.minimize(loss)
+
+        self.assertEqual(dist_strategy.exec_strategy.num_threads, 1)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()