diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 65de6541..b1dc2fa0 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - checkout
       - pip_install
-      - run: pip install torchcsprng hypothesis
+      - run: pip install torchcsprng hypothesis pytest
       - unit_tests
 
   unittest_py37_torch_release:
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - checkout
       - pip_install
-      - run: pip install torchcsprng hypothesis
+      - run: pip install torchcsprng hypothesis pytest
       - unit_tests
 
   unittest_py38_torch_release:
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - checkout
       - pip_install
-      - run: pip install torchcsprng hypothesis
+      - run: pip install torchcsprng hypothesis pytest
       - unit_tests
 
   unittest_py38_torch_nightly:
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - checkout
       - pip_install
+      - run: pip install pytest
       - mnist_integration_test:
           device: "cpu"
 
@@ -316,6 +317,7 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - py_3_6_setup
       - pip_install
+      - run: pip install pytest
       - run_nvidia_smi
       - mnist_integration_test:
           device: "cuda"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6d29fc2e..d0dcb5d4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@ torch>=1.3
 torchvision>=0.9
 tqdm>=4.40
 scipy>=1.2
-pytest
-requests
+requests>=2.25.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f420207c..570dbed0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 DEV_REQUIRES = [
     "black",
+    "pytest",
     "flake8",
     "sphinx",
     "sphinx-autodoc-typehints",