diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
index 586f51ed..2e0b7f36 100644
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # test runs requirements (versions we'll be testing against) - automatically updated by requires.io
 pip>=9  # minimum installation requirements
 setuptools>=21  # minimum installation requirements
-coverage==5.4 # pytest-cov
+coverage==5.5 # pytest-cov
 pytest==6.2.2
 pytest-cov==2.11.1
 pytest-xdist==2.2.1