diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika/run-ptest b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..786883c877
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+pytest --automake tests/unit/ tests/misc/ tests/stubs/
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika_1.4.2.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika_1.4.2.bb
index beb32240c5..b64a4a508a 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika_1.4.2.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pika_1.4.2.bb
@@ -10,17 +10,34 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=678ec81495ba50edf81e84e4f1aa69f3"
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "48d1f50297e76be4fc798fd5232d4d532d7a4758e51f7c0ae6c4004b9808a26b"
 
-inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
+# The PyPI package omits some files for testing like tests/__init__.py
+# so use the GitHub source instead.
+SRCREV = "3c9b50d4167e436c73cecae8127e3c5b266b2fce"
+SRC_URI = "\
+    git://github.com/pika/pika;branch=1.4.x;protocol=https \
+    file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+inherit python_setuptools_build_meta ptest-python-pytest
 
 PYPI_PACKAGE = "pika"
 
 DEPENDS += " \
-	python3-setuptools-scm-native \
-	python3-toml-native \
+    python3-setuptools-scm-native \
+    python3-toml-native \
 "
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
-	python3-logging \
-	python3-tornado \
-	python3-twisted \
+    python3-logging \
+    python3-tornado \
+    python3-twisted \
+    python3-gevent \
 "
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
+    python3-pytest-timeout \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest:append() {
+    install -m 0644 ${S}/pyproject.toml ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+}