diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/pyproject.toml b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/pyproject.toml
index cf1749b910a..8043bfbcf9a 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/pyproject.toml
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-proto == 1.24.0.dev",
 ]
 
-[project.optional-dependencies]
-test = []
-
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/tree/main/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common"
 
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..60f3dcd2ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+asgiref==3.7.2
+attrs==23.2.0
+Deprecated==1.2.14
+flaky==3.7.0
+importlib-metadata==6.11.0
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+packaging==23.2
+pluggy==1.4.0
+protobuf==4.25.3
+py==1.11.0
+py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
+pytest==7.1.3
+pytest-benchmark==4.0.0
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing_extensions==4.10.0
+wrapt==1.16.0
+zipp==3.17.0
+-e opentelemetry-proto
+-e exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index df19ab7a1ac..3f4c9434c0f 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -120,8 +120,7 @@ commands_pre =
 
   exporter-opencensus: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-opencensus/test-requirements.txt
 
-  exporter-otlp-proto-common: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto
-  exporter-otlp-proto-common: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common
+  exporter-otlp-proto-common: pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt
 
   exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/opentelemetry-proto
   exporter-otlp-combined: pip install {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common
@@ -221,7 +220,7 @@ commands_pre =
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/shim/opentelemetry-opencensus-shim/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-opencensus/test-requirements.txt
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/tests/opentelemetry-test-utils/test-requirements.txt
-  python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common[test]
+  pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-common/test-requirements.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc[test]
   pip install -r {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/test-requirements-1.txt
   python -m pip install -e {toxinidir}/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp[test]