diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fb9a97a2..31817d0b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ before_install:
 notifications:
   email: true
 # uncomment the following lines to override the default test script
-script:
- - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
- - julia -e 'import Pkg; Pkg.add(Pkg.PackageSpec(path=pwd())); Pkg.build("Plots")'
- - julia test/travis_commands.jl
+# script:
+ # - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
+ # - julia -e 'import Pkg; Pkg.add(Pkg.PackageSpec(path=pwd())); Pkg.build("Plots")'
+ # - julia test/travis_commands.jl
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("ImageMagick"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("GR"); Pkg.build("GR")'
  # # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/ImageMagick.jl.git"); Pkg.checkout("ImageMagick","tb_write"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index e43c45b6..15796f23 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -38,5 +38,4 @@ build_script:
     Pkg.build(\"Plots\")"
 
 test_script:
-  # - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "Pkg.test(\"Plots\")"
-  - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia test\travis_commands.jl
+  - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "using Pkg; Pkg.test(\"Plots\")"
diff --git a/test/travis_commands.jl b/test/add_packages.jl
similarity index 85%
rename from test/travis_commands.jl
rename to test/add_packages.jl
index cd6363ec..655ec4d6 100644
--- a/test/travis_commands.jl
+++ b/test/add_packages.jl
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ using Pkg
 # ENV["PYTHON"] = ""
 
 Pkg.add([
-    PackageSpec("ImageMagick"),
-    # PackageSpec("GR"),
     PackageSpec(url="https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl.git"),
-    PackageSpec("StatPlots"),
     # PackageSpec(url="https://github.com/JuliaStats/KernelDensity.jl.git"),
     PackageSpec(name="PlotUtils", rev="master"),
     PackageSpec(name="RecipesBase", rev="master"),
@@ -25,5 +22,3 @@ Pkg.build("ImageMagick")
 # import Blink
 # Blink.AtomShell.install()
 # Pkg.build("PyPlot")
-
-Pkg.test("Plots"; coverage=false)
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index fd9f00bf..61d0e049 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 module PlotsTests
 
+include("add_packages.jl")
 include("imgcomp.jl")
 
 # don't actually show the plots