diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittests.yml b/.github/workflows/unittests.yml
index e250f2b..a5711ad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unittests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittests.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ jobs:
         python-version: '3.11'
 
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: pip install -r requirements.txt
-  
+      run: |
+        pip install -r requirements.txt
+        pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
+
     - name: Run Unit Tests
       run: pytest . -vvv
diff --git a/requirements-tests.txt b/requirements-tests.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d4b872
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pytest==7.4.2
+pytest_httpserver==1.0.10
+werkzeug==3.0.1
+pytest-asyncio==0.23.7
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 499e836..1a59ba9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,3 @@ jupyterhub==4.1.5
 pyfirecrest==2.1.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.4.52
 oauthenticator==16.0.7
-pytest==7.4.2
-pytest_httpserver==1.0.10
-werkzeug==3.0.1
-pytest-asyncio==0.23.7
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 49a534a..f7714d2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,13 +22,4 @@
     description='FirecREST-Spawner: A spawner for Jupyterhub to spawn notebooks using FirecREST.',
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
-    # install_requires=[
-    #     'jupyterhub==2.0.0',
-    #     'pyfirecrest==2.1.0',
-    #     'SQLAlchemy==1.3.22',
-    #     'oauthenticator==16.0.7'
-    # ],
-    extras_require={
-      "oauth": ['oauthenticator==16.0.7']
-    }
 )