diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml
index caf27ec5ab..3c179651d4 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
 ]
 dependencies = [
+  "opentelemetry-instrumentation == 0.45b0.dev",
   "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.11",
   "opentelemetry-sdk ~= 1.11",
   "psutil ~= 5.9",
@@ -33,10 +34,6 @@ dependencies = [
 instruments = [
   "psutil >= 5",
 ]
-test = [
-  "opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics[instruments]",
-  "opentelemetry-test-utils == 0.45b0.dev",
-]
 
 [project.entry-points.opentelemetry_instrumentor]
 system_metrics = "opentelemetry.instrumentation.system_metrics:SystemMetricsInstrumentor"
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee56025d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+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
+psutil==5.9.8
+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-system-metrics
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 25571d1ff3..c11927c9ba 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   starlette: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-starlette/test-requirements.txt
 
-  system-metrics: pip install {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics[test]
+  system-metrics: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
 
   tornado: pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/test-requirements.txt
 
@@ -615,9 +615,9 @@ commands_pre =
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx/test-requirements-1.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-lambda/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql/test-requirements.txt
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-asyncio/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-richconsole/test-requirements.txt
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
   # requires snappy headers to be available on the system
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/resource/opentelemetry-resource-detector-container/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/propagator/opentelemetry-propagator-aws-xray/test-requirements.txt