diff --git a/.github/workflows/gh-ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/gh-ci.yaml
index 85c18fb..0c73da1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gh-ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gh-ci.yaml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: MDAnalysis/install-mdanalysis@main
       with:
         version: ${{ matrix.mdanalysis-version }}
-        install-tests: false
+        install-tests: true
         installer:  mamba 
         shell: bash  -l {0} 
       
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e30895f..2ebb256 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ test = [
     "pytest>=6.0",
     "pytest-xdist>=2.5",
     "pytest-cov>=3.0",
+    "MDAnalysisTests>=2.0.0",
 ]
 doc = [
     "sphinx",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 96a2172..cb7cc81 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
             "pytest>=6.0",
             "pytest-xdist>=2.5",
             "pytest-cov>=3.0",
+            "MDAnalysisTests>=2.0.0",
         ],
         "doc": [
             "sphinx",