diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 1f99a8019..2eee4cf53 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ testing =
     nose
     pygments>=2.7.2
     requests
+    setuptools
     xmlschema
 
 [options.package_data]