diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_test-base.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_test-base.yml
index ed8a2e30949b7..0e84642e2f810 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_test-base.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_test-base.yml
@@ -51,9 +51,8 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade --user pip
-        pip install --requirement ./requirements.txt --quiet  --find-links https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch_stable.html --upgrade
-        pip install --requirement ./requirements/test.txt --quiet --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed
-        # pip install tox coverage
+        pip install --requirement ./requirements.txt --find-links https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch_stable.html --upgrade
+        pip install "pytest>6.0" "pytest-cov>2.10" --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed
         python --version
         pip --version
         pip list
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test Package [only]
       run: |
         # NOTE: run coverage on tests does not propagare faler status for Win, https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1003
-        coverage run --source pytorch_lightning -m pytest pytorch_lightning -v --junitxml=junit/test-results-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.requires }}.xml
+        python -m pytest pytorch_lightning -v --cov=pytorch_lightning --junitxml=junit/test-results-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.requires }}.xml
 
     - name: Upload pytest test results
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml
index 3d3f7d11570a4..ba8d804414993 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-18.04, windows-2019, macOS-10.15]
         python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8]
         requires: ['minimal', 'latest']
-        exclude:
-          # # todo: segmentation fault for minimal and hanging for latest
-          - python-version: 3.8
-            os: ubuntu-18.04
 
     # Timeout: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59076067/4521646
     timeout-minutes: 35  # TODO: the macOS is taking too long, probably caching did not work...
diff --git a/requirements/extra.txt b/requirements/extra.txt
index 85437327bce06..a05c4971ac450 100644
--- a/requirements/extra.txt
+++ b/requirements/extra.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ matplotlib>3.1
 horovod>=0.21.2  # no need to install with [pytorch] as pytorch is already installed
 omegaconf>=2.0.1
 torchtext>=0.5
-onnx>=1.7.0
+# onnx>=1.7.0
 onnxruntime>=1.3.0
 hydra-core>=1.0
 https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/fairscale/archive/pl_1.2.0.zip
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index 60c861cea9c50..84ddb2f981b54 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ coverage>=5.2
 codecov>=2.1
 pytest>=6.0
 pytest-cov>2.10
-pytest-xdist
+# pytest-xdist
 flake8>=3.6
 check-manifest
 twine==3.2
-# scipy>=0.13.3
 scikit-learn>=0.22.2
 scikit-image>=0.17.2
 isort>=5.6.4
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 63b026a591e00..ab1e1e8c1addc 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ exclude_lines =
     pass
     rank_zero_warn
     raise NotImplementedError
-
 # TODO: figure out how to get codecov to pick up the test results on these backends
 #  The actual coverage for each is 90%+
 # *metrics (94%+) are temporarily removed from testing while tests speed up