diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b070fe0ed..b7bf943ad 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ numpy==1.13.3
 TA-Lib==0.4.10
 pytest==3.2.2
 pytest-mock==1.6.3
+pytest-cov==2.5.1
 
 # Required for plotting data
 #matplotlib==2.0.2
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2cd551cb2..e89fd2eee 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ setup(name='freqtrade',
       packages=['freqtrade'],
       scripts=['bin/freqtrade'],
       setup_requires=['pytest-runner'],
-      tests_require=['pytest', 'pytest-mock'],
+      tests_require=['pytest', 'pytest-mock', 'pytest-cov'],
       install_requires=[
           'python-bittrex==0.1.3',
           'SQLAlchemy==1.1.13',