diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3d5642d5b..beb2e575b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ install:
 # so we must combine them in the end
 script:
   - cd test
-  - nosetests -xv --process-restartworker --processes=1 --process-timeout=999999999  --with-cov --cov=alignak
+  - nosetests -xv --process-restartworker --processes=1 --process-timeout=999999999  --with-coverage --cover-package=alignak
   - coverage combine
   - cd .. && pep8 --max-line-length=100 --ignore=E303,E302,E301,E241 --exclude='*.pyc' alignak/*
 # specific call to launch coverage data into coveralls.io
diff --git a/test/requirements.txt b/test/requirements.txt
index 72404db2e..4e9155683 100644
--- a/test/requirements.txt
+++ b/test/requirements.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ mock
 coveralls==0.5
 nose-cov==1.6
 coverage==3.7.1
-nose==1.3.4
+nose==1.3.6
 pylint==1.4.1
 pep8==1.5.7
+cov-core==1.15.0
diff --git a/test/setup_test.sh b/test/setup_test.sh
index 4c3f6e42a..fb6ef9428 100755
--- a/test/setup_test.sh
+++ b/test/setup_test.sh
@@ -27,3 +27,6 @@ cd $BASE_PATH
 # install prog AND tests requirements :
 pip install -r test/requirements.txt
 python setup.py develop
+
+# for eventual debug help to know what libs versions we have:
+pip freeze