diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 77073a2b..baa801eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ dependencies = [
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-test = ["pytest>=6.0", "pytest-cov", "pytest-asyncio"]
+tests = ["pytest>=6.0", "pytest-cov", "pytest-asyncio"]
 dev = ["pre-commit>=3.7.1", "ruff==0.5.0", "psycopg2-binary", "jupyter", "ipykernel"]
 
 [project.urls]