diff --git a/examples/validate_examples.py b/examples/validate_examples.py
index f46bf41a..818abd4f 100644
--- a/examples/validate_examples.py
+++ b/examples/validate_examples.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     "deployment",
     "talks",
     "parallelism",  # TODO - remove this shortly
+    "pytest",
 ]