diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7c9b62d..f5f8b0d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -20,14 +20,11 @@ devenv: .venv  ## create a python virtual environment with tools to dev, run and
 	@echo "To activate the virtual environment, run 'source $</bin/activate'"
 
 
-requirements: devenv ## runs pip-tools to compile dependencies
-	# freezes requirements
-	pip-compile requirements/test.in --resolver=backtracking --output-file requirements/test.txt
-
 
 .PHONY: install-test
 install-test:	## install dependencies for testing
-	pip install -r requirements/test.txt
+	pip install -r requirements/test.in
+	pip list --verbose
 
 .PHONY: tests-dev
 tests-dev:	## run tests in development mode
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f17b2de..0000000
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.10
-# by the following command:
-#
-#    pip-compile --output-file=requirements/test.txt requirements/test.in
-#
-certifi==2024.2.2
-    # via requests
-charset-normalizer==3.3.2
-    # via requests
-coverage[toml]==7.4.4
-    # via pytest-cov
-exceptiongroup==1.2.0
-    # via pytest
-idna==3.6
-    # via requests
-iniconfig==2.0.0
-    # via pytest
-packaging==24.0
-    # via pytest
-pluggy==1.4.0
-    # via pytest
-psutil==5.9.8
-    # via -r requirements/test.in
-pytest==8.1.1
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/test.in
-    #   pytest-cov
-    #   pytest-mock
-pytest-cov==4.1.0
-    # via -r requirements/test.in
-pytest-mock==3.12.0
-    # via -r requirements/test.in
-requests==2.31.0
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/test.in
-    #   requests-mock
-requests-mock==1.11.0
-    # via -r requirements/test.in
-six==1.16.0
-    # via requests-mock
-tenacity==8.2.3
-    # via -r requirements/test.in
-tomli==2.0.1
-    # via
-    #   coverage
-    #   pytest
-urllib3==2.2.1
-    # via requests
diff --git a/scripts/ci_tests.sh b/scripts/ci_tests.sh
index 4207194..e253230 100755
--- a/scripts/ci_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci_tests.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ IFS=$'\n\t'
 install() {
   make .venv  
   source .venv/bin/activate
-  pip install -r requirements/test.in
-  pip list --verbose
+  make install-test
 }
 
 test() {