diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/pyproject.toml
index 89233037b00..b61acce885d 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http == 1.24.0.dev",
 ]
 
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
 [project.entry-points.opentelemetry_logs_exporter]
 otlp = "opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc._log_exporter:OTLPLogExporter"
 
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/test-requirements.txt b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99775220476
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+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-api
+-e exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common
+-e exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
+-e exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http
+-e opentelemetry-proto
+-e opentelemetry-sdk
+-e opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
+-e exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 3f4c9434c0f..f3eacef8d35 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -122,11 +122,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   exporter-otlp-proto-common: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt
 
-  exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto
-  exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common
-  exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc
-  exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http
-  exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
+  exporter-otlp-combined: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/test-requirements.txt
 
   exporter-otlp-proto-grpc: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto
   exporter-otlp-proto-grpc: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common
@@ -223,10 +219,10 @@ commands_pre =
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/test-requirements-1.txt
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-proto-http/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json/test-requirements.txt
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/propagator/opentelemetry-propagator-b3/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/propagator/opentelemetry-propagator-jaeger/test-requirements.txt