diff --git a/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/pyproject.toml b/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/pyproject.toml
index b6a39e492c..6978ba5e22 100644
--- a/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/pyproject.toml
+++ b/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-sdk == 1.24.0.dev",
 ]
 
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils"
 
diff --git a/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/test-requirements.txt b/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19b6fb58cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+flaky==3.7.0
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.4.0
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.10.0
+wrapt==1.16.0
+zipp==3.17.0
+-e opentelemetry-api
+-e opentelemetry-sdk
+-e opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
+-e tests/opentelemetry-test-utils
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 8f3d7d15fc..bf4345ba18 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ commands_pre =
   api: pip install -r {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-api/test-requirements.txt
   sdk: pip install -r {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-sdk/test-requirements.txt
   semantic-conventions: pip install -r {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-semantic-conventions/test-requirements.txt
+  test-utils: pip install -r {toxinidir}/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/test-requirements.txt
 
 ; Install common packages for all the tests. These are not needed in all the
 ; cases but it saves a lot of boilerplate in this file.
@@ -217,10 +218,10 @@ commands_pre =
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-semantic-conventions/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto/test-requirements.txt
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/shim/opentelemetry-opentracing-shim/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/shim/opentelemetry-opencensus-shim/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-opencensus/test-requirements.txt
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common[test]
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/test-requirements-1.txt