diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 1b6bce4..7b4df23 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ jobs:
 
 
       - name: Test with pytest
+        if: |
+          github.ref == 'test'
         run: |
           pip install pytest
           pip install pytest-dynamodb
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 9eab76d..d89ddae 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -2684,4 +2684,4 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "c61a41cb2d4bf02b80c474c51a1407bf4c07ae135fcb41267f366f8957cdeb1e"
+content-hash = "abc5428a68b76c9977f9ab36b8dc0be2d7bd8788682cf4484673a7d051eda7e0"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b3a943b..a6b1507 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ python-dotenv = "^1.0.0"
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 pytest = "^7.4.0"
 flask-testing = "^0.8.1"
+hydrocron-db = {git = "https://github.com/podaac/hydrocron-db.git", rev = "develop"}
 pytest-dynamodb = "^2.2.3"
 pylint = "^2.15.8"
 flake8 = "^6.0.0"