diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index ca5b7cf..ffab98b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: install coverage
       run: pip install coverage
 
+    - name: install pytest
+      run: pip install pytest==8.2.0
+
     - name: run tests
       run: coverage run --source=valentine -m unittest discover tests
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_all_os.yml b/.github/workflows/build_all_os.yml
index f46bebb..1d75774 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/build_all_os.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_all_os.yml
@@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ jobs:
           java-version: '11'
       - name: Install valentine
         run: pip install .
-      - name: run tests
+      - name: Install test dependencies
+        run: pip install pytest==8.2.0
+      - name: Run tests
         run: python -m unittest discover tests
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c6cf2c4..4c70343 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,4 @@ pyemd==1.0.0
 # data loading
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
 # testing
-valentine~=0.2.0
-pytest~=8.2.0
-setuptools~=65.5.1
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+pytest~=8.2.0
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