diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d21792f..99f8ee5 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ test:
       - source activate tagmaps
   stage: test
   script:
+    # test dev install
+    - pip install -e . --no-dependencies
     # run main test
     - python tests/test_all.py --maxItems 50 --autoMode
     - pylint --output-format=text tagmaps | tee pylint.txt || pylint-exit $?
diff --git a/tests/test_all.py b/tests/test_all.py
index c807519..8105c55 100644
--- a/tests/test_all.py
+++ b/tests/test_all.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 import sys
 import os
-import tagmaps
 import argparse
 from pathlib import Path
 from tagmaps.__main__ import main as tm_main