diff --git a/garden-service/src/commands/dev.ts b/garden-service/src/commands/dev.ts
index d42ffdb871..0b3c34fb28 100644
--- a/garden-service/src/commands/dev.ts
+++ b/garden-service/src/commands/dev.ts
@@ -133,49 +133,14 @@ export class DevCommand extends Command<DevCommandArgs, DevCommandOpts> {
       }
     }
 
-    const initialTasks = flatten(
-      await Bluebird.map(modules, async (module) => {
-        // Build the module (in case there are no tests, tasks or services here that need to be run)
-        const buildTasks = await BuildTask.factory({
-          garden,
-          log,
-          module,
-          force: false,
-        })
-
-        // Run all tests in module
-        const testTasks = skipTests
-          ? []
-          : await getTestTasks({
-              garden,
-              graph,
-              log,
-              module,
-              force: false,
-              forceBuild: false,
-            })
-
-        // Deploy all enabled services in module
-        const services = await graph.getServices({ names: module.serviceNames, includeDisabled: true })
-        const deployTasks = services
-          .filter((s) => !s.disabled)
-          .map(
-            (service) =>
-              new DeployTask({
-                garden,
-                log,
-                graph,
-                service,
-                force: false,
-                forceBuild: false,
-                fromWatch: false,
-                hotReloadServiceNames,
-              })
-          )
-
-        return [...buildTasks, ...testTasks, ...deployTasks]
-      })
-    )
+    const initialTasks = await getDevCommandInitialTasks({
+      garden,
+      log,
+      graph,
+      modules,
+      hotReloadServiceNames,
+      skipTests,
+    })
 
     const results = await processModules({
       garden,
@@ -202,6 +167,67 @@ export class DevCommand extends Command<DevCommandArgs, DevCommandOpts> {
   }
 }
 
+export async function getDevCommandInitialTasks({
+  garden,
+  log,
+  graph,
+  modules,
+  hotReloadServiceNames,
+  skipTests,
+}: {
+  garden: Garden
+  log: LogEntry
+  graph: ConfigGraph
+  modules: Module[]
+  hotReloadServiceNames: string[]
+  skipTests: boolean
+}) {
+  return flatten(
+    await Bluebird.map(modules, async (module) => {
+      // Build the module (in case there are no tests, tasks or services here that need to be run)
+      const buildTasks = await BuildTask.factory({
+        garden,
+        log,
+        module,
+        force: false,
+      })
+
+      // Run all tests in module
+      const testTasks = skipTests
+        ? []
+        : await getTestTasks({
+            garden,
+            graph,
+            log,
+            module,
+            hotReloadServiceNames,
+            force: false,
+            forceBuild: false,
+          })
+
+      // Deploy all enabled services in module
+      const services = await graph.getServices({ names: module.serviceNames, includeDisabled: true })
+      const deployTasks = services
+        .filter((s) => !s.disabled)
+        .map(
+          (service) =>
+            new DeployTask({
+              garden,
+              log,
+              graph,
+              service,
+              force: false,
+              forceBuild: false,
+              fromWatch: false,
+              hotReloadServiceNames,
+            })
+        )
+
+      return [...buildTasks, ...testTasks, ...deployTasks]
+    })
+  )
+}
+
 export async function getDevCommandWatchTasks({
   garden,
   log,
diff --git a/garden-service/test/data/test-project-a/module-a/garden.yml b/garden-service/test/data/test-project-a/module-a/garden.yml
index 33c94c547e..af88619a40 100644
--- a/garden-service/test/data/test-project-a/module-a/garden.yml
+++ b/garden-service/test/data/test-project-a/module-a/garden.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ tests:
     command: [echo, OK]
   - name: integration
     command: [echo, OK]
+    dependencies: 
+      - service-a
 tasks:
   - name: task-a
     command: [echo, OK]
diff --git a/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/dev.ts b/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/dev.ts
index b7e1d17f01..e62a5d0095 100644
--- a/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/dev.ts
+++ b/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/dev.ts
@@ -6,12 +6,21 @@
  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
  */
 
+import Bluebird from "bluebird"
+import { flattenDeep } from "lodash"
 import pEvent from "p-event"
 import { expect } from "chai"
-import { DevCommand, DevCommandArgs, DevCommandOpts, getDevCommandWatchTasks } from "../../../../src/commands/dev"
+import {
+  DevCommand,
+  DevCommandArgs,
+  DevCommandOpts,
+  getDevCommandWatchTasks,
+  getDevCommandInitialTasks,
+} from "../../../../src/commands/dev"
 import { makeTestGardenA, withDefaultGlobalOpts, TestGarden } from "../../../helpers"
 import { ParameterValues } from "../../../../src/commands/base"
 import { GlobalOptions } from "../../../../src/cli/cli"
+import { BaseTask } from "../../../../src/tasks/base"
 
 describe("DevCommand", () => {
   const command = new DevCommand()
@@ -106,6 +115,38 @@ describe("DevCommand", () => {
     return promise
   })
 
+  it("should initially deploy services with hot reloading when requested", async () => {
+    const garden = await makeTestGardenA()
+    const log = garden.log
+    const graph = await garden.getConfigGraph(log)
+    const modules = await graph.getModules()
+
+    const initialTasks = await getDevCommandInitialTasks({
+      garden,
+      log,
+      graph,
+      modules,
+      // Note: service-a is a runtime dependency of module-a's integration test spec, so in this test case
+      // we're implicitly verifying that tests with runtime dependencies on services being deployed with
+      // hot reloading don't request non-hot-reload-enabled deploys for those same services.
+      hotReloadServiceNames: ["service-a"],
+      skipTests: false,
+    })
+
+    const withDeps = async (task: BaseTask) => {
+      const deps = await task.getDependencies()
+      return [task, await Bluebird.map(deps, async (dep) => await withDeps(dep))]
+    }
+
+    const initialTasksWithDeps: BaseTask[] = flattenDeep(await Bluebird.map(initialTasks, withDeps))
+    const deployTasksForServiceA = initialTasksWithDeps.filter((t) => t.getKey() === "deploy.service-a")
+
+    expect(deployTasksForServiceA.length).to.be.greaterThan(0)
+    for (const deployTask of deployTasksForServiceA) {
+      expect(deployTask!["hotReloadServiceNames"]).to.eql(["service-a"])
+    }
+  })
+
   it("should skip disabled services", async () => {
     const garden = await makeTestGardenA()
 
diff --git a/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/test.ts b/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/test.ts
index 1df2e7d99e..b2c604a791 100644
--- a/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/test.ts
+++ b/garden-service/test/unit/src/commands/test.ts
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ describe("TestCommand", () => {
     expect(Object.keys(taskResultOutputs(result!)).sort()).to.eql([
       "build.module-a",
       "build.module-b",
+      "deploy.service-a",
+      "get-service-status.service-a",
       "stage-build.module-a",
       "stage-build.module-b",
       "test.module-a.integration",
diff --git a/garden-service/test/unit/src/config/base.ts b/garden-service/test/unit/src/config/base.ts
index 187f76aef1..4a9e2cbead 100644
--- a/garden-service/test/unit/src/config/base.ts
+++ b/garden-service/test/unit/src/config/base.ts
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ describe("loadConfig", () => {
             {
               name: "integration",
               command: ["echo", "OK"],
+              dependencies: ["service-a"],
             },
           ],
         },