diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index 86d46b75..b7d102fb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -28,12 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install pytest
-        pip install -r requirements.txt
-        pip install xmltodict==0.12.0
-        pip install pytest==7.0.1
-        pip install coverage==6.3.2
-        pip install py==1.11.0
+        pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
         python setup.py install
     - name: Unit tests
       run: |
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index b77663ea..226ee517 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ include CONTRIBUTING.rst
 include HISTORY.rst
 include LICENSE
 include README.rst
-include requirements.txt
+include requirements.in
 recursive-include tests *
 recursive-exclude * __pycache__
 recursive-exclude * *.py[co]
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index b9334c44..301997e7 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # When installing dev dependencies also install the user dependencies
--r requirements.txt
-xmltodict==0.12.0
-pytest==7.0.1
-coverage==6.3.2
-py==1.11.0
-flake8==4.0.1
+-r requirements.in
+xmltodict>=0.12.0
+pytest
+coverage
+py
+flake8
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fc19336..00000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.9
-# To update, run:
-#
-#    pip-compile
-#
-certifi==2021.5.30
-    # via requests
-charset-normalizer==2.0.6
-    # via requests
-defusedxml==0.7.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
-idna==3.2
-    # via requests
-requests==2.26.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
-urllib3==1.26.7
-    # via requests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0cc0fe9b..17ab21a3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 with open("HISTORY.rst") as history_file:
     history = history_file.read()
 
-requirements = [open("requirements.txt").read()]
+requirements = [open("requirements.in").read()]
 
 setup_requirements = []
 
diff --git a/tests/test_json2xml.py b/tests/test_json2xml.py
index 0d3f1bb6..40003fef 100644
--- a/tests/test_json2xml.py
+++ b/tests/test_json2xml.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 import pytest
 import json
-from collections import OrderedDict
 
 import xmltodict
 from pyexpat import ExpatError
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ def test_json_to_xml_conversion(self):
         )
         xmldata = json2xml.Json2xml(data).to_xml()
         dict_from_xml = xmltodict.parse(xmldata)
-        assert type(dict_from_xml["all"]) == OrderedDict
+        assert type(dict_from_xml["all"]) == dict
 
     def test_custom_wrapper_and_indent(self):
         data = readfromstring(