diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c5c37d97a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pytest.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[pytest]
+DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = specifyweb.settings
diff --git a/requirements-testing.txt b/requirements-testing.txt
index 21bba85648c..aab161ee7f1 100644
--- a/requirements-testing.txt
+++ b/requirements-testing.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ mypy==1.5.1
 hypothesis>=6.131.9,<7
 hypothesis-jsonschema==0.19.0
 types-requests==2.28.5
-lxml
\ No newline at end of file
+lxml
+coverage
+pytest-django