diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d9c86297b..4a9e6e2ad 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ htmlcov
 .coverage
 MANIFEST
 .ipynb_checkpoints
+/.eggs/README.txt
 
 # Sphinx
 docs/api
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index a440e8b56..c12c4ae72 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ Source Installation
   cd pyvo
   python setup.py install
 
+Testing
+^^^^^^^
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  pip install test-requirements.txt
+  pytest
+
+Tests requiring access to the web will be skipped, to run them:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  pytest --remote-data
+
 Requirements
 ------------
 * numpy
diff --git a/pip-requirements b/pip-requirements
index b490a922b..32b8ea93f 100644
--- a/pip-requirements
+++ b/pip-requirements
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 astropy
 requests
 mimeparse
+pillow
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bacb6f861
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pytest
+pytest-remotedata
+requests-mock