diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index 8a1dae3c4..620952d61 100755
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ function setup_osbs() {
                     cairo-devel gobject-introspection-devel cairo-gobject-devel ostree)
   PKG_EXTRA+=("${PKG_COMMON_EXTRA[@]}")
 
+  python -m venv testenv
+  source "testenv/bin/activate"
+
   PIP_INST=("$PIP" install --index-url "${PYPI_INDEX:-https://pypi.org/simple}")
 
   # RPM install basic dependencies
@@ -59,11 +62,9 @@ function setup_osbs() {
   # Upgrade pip to provide latest features for successful installation
   $RUN "${PIP_INST[@]}" --upgrade "pip<23.1"
 
+  $RUN "${PIP_INST[@]}" -r requirements-build.txt
+
   if [[ $OS == rockylinux ]]; then
-    # Pip install/upgrade setuptools. Older versions of setuptools don't understand
-    # environment markers, also rockylinux needs to have setuptools updates to make
-    # pytest-cov work
-    $RUN "${PIP_INST[@]}" --upgrade setuptools
     # install with RPM_PY_SYS=true to avoid error caused by installing on system python
     $RUN sh -c "RPM_PY_SYS=true ${PIP_INST[*]} rpm-py-installer"
   fi