diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0e687b5..40780a1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .idea/
+.venv/
 
 *.pyc
 local_settings.py
diff --git a/etc/pip-requires.txt b/etc/pip-requires.txt
index c1d3915..baf1e07 100644
--- a/etc/pip-requires.txt
+++ b/etc/pip-requires.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ librabbitmq>=1.0.0
 prettytable>=0.7.2
 argparse
 Pympler
+requests
diff --git a/etc/test-requires.txt b/etc/test-requires.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c622cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/test-requires.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+nose
+coverage
+mox
+nose-exclude
diff --git a/run_tests_venv.sh b/run_tests_venv.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9d516e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_tests_venv.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+virtualenv .venv
+. .venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r etc/pip-requires.txt
+pip install -r etc/test-requires.txt
+nosetests tests --exclude-dir=stacktach --with-coverage --cover-package=stacktach,worker,verifier --cover-erase
+