diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/pyproject.toml b/opentelemetry-sdk/pyproject.toml
index a6319c70a20..e8718e2d679 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/pyproject.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "typing-extensions >= 3.7.4",
 ]
 
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
 [project.entry-points.opentelemetry_environment_variables]
 sdk = "opentelemetry.sdk.environment_variables"
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/test-requirements.txt b/opentelemetry-sdk/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d6ed2d3453b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+flaky==3.7.0
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.4.0
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.10.0
+wrapt==1.16.0
+zipp==3.17.0
+-e ../../../opentelemetry-sdk
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 1bd0c98226e..4d26f04d2d1 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ commands_pre =
   py3{8,9,10,11}: python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
 ; Install common packages for all the tests. These are not needed in all the
 ; cases but it saves a lot of boilerplate in this file.
+
+  sdk: pip install -r {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-sdk/test-requirements.txt
+
   opentelemetry: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-api {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-semantic-conventions {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-sdk {toxinidir}/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils
 
   protobuf: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto
@@ -214,7 +217,7 @@ deps =
 commands_pre =
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-api[test]
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-semantic-conventions[test]
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-sdk[test]
+  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-sdk
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto[test]
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils[test]
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/shim/opentelemetry-opentracing-shim[test]