diff --git a/.github/workflows/action_python.yaml b/.github/workflows/action_python.yaml
index 6a2fd559..c57958a9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/action_python.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/action_python.yaml
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ jobs:
       run: uv sync --all-extras --dev
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
-        uv run pytest --cov=src tests/ --doctest-modules --junitxml=cover/xunit-result.xml --cov-report xml:cover/coverage.xml
-        uv run coverage json -o cover/coverage.json
+        uv run pytest --cov=src tests/ --junitxml=cover/xunit-result.xml --cov-report xml:cover/coverage.xml
+        uv run coverage json cover/xunit-result.xml coverage.json
     - name: "Extract numbers from cov report"
       run: |
         export TOTAL=$(python -c "import json;print(json.load(open('cover/coverage.json'))['totals']['percent_covered_display'])")
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5ce2b28d..24c822e3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ dev-dependencies = [
   "mypy>=1.7.1",
   "pre-commit>=3.5.0",
   "pytest>=7.4.3",
-  "pytest-cov>=4.1.0",
+  "pytest-cov",
   "ruff>=0.8.1",
   "tox>=4.23",
   "tox-uv",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 01d4ff00..8d599ede 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -2192,7 +2192,7 @@ dev = [
     { name = "mypy", specifier = ">=1.7.1" },
     { name = "pre-commit", specifier = ">=3.5.0" },
     { name = "pytest", specifier = ">=7.4.3" },
-    { name = "pytest-cov", specifier = ">=4.1.0" },
+    { name = "pytest-cov" },
     { name = "ruff", specifier = ">=0.8.1" },
     { name = "tox", specifier = ">=4.23" },
     { name = "tox-uv" },