diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b2407bb..44a00fc 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -6,10 +6,16 @@ branches:
   only:
   - master
 before_install:
+# We need to use conda, because virtualenv did not work on travis with 3.4
 - sudo apt-get update -qq
+- sudo apt-get install -qq libatlas-dev libatlas-base-dev liblapack-dev gfortran
+- wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O miniconda.sh
+- chmod +x miniconda.sh
+- ./miniconda.sh -b
+- export PATH=/home/travis/miniconda/bin:$PATH
+- conda update --yes conda
+- travis_retry conda install --yes python=$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION pip numpy scipy
 install:
-- if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == "2.7" ]]; then sudo apt-get install python-numpy; fi
-- if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == "3.4" ]]; then sudo apt-get install python3-numpy; fi
 - travis_retry python setup.py develop
 - python --version
 - pip freeze
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0b89641..4232f4f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         description=description,
         long_description=longdescription,
         install_requires=["sqlitedict>=1.2.0", "NumPy>=1.5.1"],
-        tests_require=["psutil"],
+        tests_require=["psutil, scipy"],
         keywords=["multiprocessing", "queue", "parallel", "distributed", "computing",
                   "progress", "manager", "job", "persistent data", "scheduler"],
         classifiers= [