diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5a2cd302..e2f7c54a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ sudo: required
 services:
     - docker
 install:
-    - pip install docker pytest requests
+    - make test-env
 script:
     - make build-test-all
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8fea83e7..7ac1a768 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ dev/%: PORT?=8888
 dev/%: ## run a foreground container for a stack
 	docker run -it --rm -p $(PORT):8888 $(DARGS) $(OWNER)/$(notdir $@) $(ARGS)
 
+test-reqs: # install libraries required to run the integration tests
+	pip install -r requirements-test.txt
+
 test/%:
 	@TEST_IMAGE="$(OWNER)/$(notdir $@)" pytest test
 
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f6cdf908
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+docker
+pytest
+requests
\ No newline at end of file