diff --git a/requirements_for_test.txt b/requirements_for_test.txt
index 3f3644dd7..ac3893c5c 100644
--- a/requirements_for_test.txt
+++ b/requirements_for_test.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ pep8==1.7.0
 pytest==2.9.1
 pytest-mock==0.11.0
 pytest-cov==2.2.1
+pytest-xdist==1.14
 coveralls==1.1
 moto==0.4.23
 httpretty==0.8.14
diff --git a/scripts/run_tests.sh b/scripts/run_tests.sh
index 03e31b9b8..d010edfb9 100755
--- a/scripts/run_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_tests.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ display_result $? 2 "Front end code style check"
 export NOTIFY_ADMIN_ENVIRONMENT='config.Test'
 
 ## Code coverage
-py.test --cov=app --cov-report=term-missing tests/
+py.test -n2 --cov=app --cov-report=term-missing tests/
 display_result $? 3 "Code coverage"
 
 #py.test -v