diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/pyproject.toml
index 3032c12da6..5ae0f09376 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/pyproject.toml
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 instruments = []
-test = [
-  "opentelemetry-test-utils == 0.45b0.dev",
-]
 
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/tree/main/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi"
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/test-requirements.txt b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..46c02707c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+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==4.9.0
+wrapt==1.16.0
+zipp==3.17.0
+-e opentelemetry-instrumentation
+-e instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 8ac6a4606f..621b76c661 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   cassandra: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-cassandra[test]
 
-  dbapi: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi[test]
+  dbapi: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/test-requirements.txt
 
   py3{8,9}-test-instrumentation-django-0: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/test-requirements-0.txt
   py3{8,9}-test-instrumentation-django-1: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/test-requirements-1.txt
@@ -562,8 +562,8 @@ commands_pre =
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/util/opentelemetry-util-http[test]
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-instrumentation[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/test-requirements.txt
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgi/test-requirements.txt
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-dbapi/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore[test]
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-boto3sqs[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/test-requirements-3.txt