diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 18d55569d4..34c9d6b58b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ dependencies = [
 tests = ["pytest", "pytest-pretty", "coverage", "scvi-tools[optional]"]
 editing = ["jupyter", "pre-commit"]
 dev = ["scvi-tools[editing,tests]"]
+test = ["scvi-tools[tests]"]
 
 docs = [
     "docutils>=0.8,!=0.18.*,!=0.19.*", # see https://github.com/scverse/cookiecutter-scverse/pull/205