diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4aacd01e8c37a015f8a9158d3b22f875eedf3bb9..ef68cd6881080097bb8b99a7cc0b3122fe8d3cd3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ unit test coverage:
       - unit test notification
     rules:
 #          for testing only!
-#        - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
+        - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
         - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG =~ /^end-of-sprint-[0-9]+/ || $CI_COMMIT_TAG =~ /[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+-rc[0-9]+/'
           variables:
             # override DEPLOY_ENV
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 29fba01387cc84a517a9933eafe706e153e5ac4f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-dsnparse==0.1.15
-pytest
-pendulum==2.1.2
-pytest-mock==3.10.0
-behave==1.2.6
-pytest-cov
-mock_alchemy==0.2.1
-pytest-resource-path
-requests-mock
-astropy
-fakeredis==1.7.1
-prometheus-client==0.4.1
-pyramid==2.0.1
-pyramid-retry==2.1.1
-pyramid_beaker==0.8
-pyramid-tm==2.5
-immutable_views
-hypothesis
-kombu
-zope-sqlalchemy==2.0
--e ./shared/messaging
--e ./shared/workspaces