diff --git a/tests/run.rb b/tests/run.rb
index 7580d99d6..3cc2a8de9 100755
--- a/tests/run.rb
+++ b/tests/run.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
+require "digest/md5"
 require "json"
+require "json_schema"
 require "pp"
 require "tempfile"
 
diff --git a/tests/test.d/simple_test.rb b/tests/test.d/simple_test.rb
index ba2346be3..d2b7f0b1f 100644
--- a/tests/test.d/simple_test.rb
+++ b/tests/test.d/simple_test.rb
@@ -334,8 +334,6 @@ class SimpleTest
   def json_schema_identification
     return @@json_schema_identification if @@json_schema_identification
 
-    require "json_schema"
-
     json_store = JsonSchema::DocumentStore.new
     parser     = JsonSchema::Parser.new
     expander   = JsonSchema::ReferenceExpander.new
diff --git a/tests/test.d/util.rb b/tests/test.d/util.rb
index 5aae085de..45964e55f 100644
--- a/tests/test.d/util.rb
+++ b/tests/test.d/util.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-require 'digest/md5'
-
 $message_mutex = Mutex.new
 def show_message message
   $message_mutex.lock