diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 4c42a792..d3c1ee78 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -e ./napari-from-github -c "./napari-from-github/resources/constraints/constraints_py3.10.txt"
           python -m pip install -e .[json]
           # bare minimum required to test napari/plugins
-          python -m pip install pytest scikit-image[data] zarr xarray hypothesis matplotlib
+          python -m pip install pytest pytest-pretty scikit-image[data] zarr xarray hypothesis matplotlib
 
       - name: Run napari plugin headless tests
         run: pytest -W 'ignore::DeprecationWarning' napari/plugins napari/settings napari/layers napari/components
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d60bc7e7..faf99a7e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ testing = [
     "pytest",
     "pytest-cov",
     "jsonschema",
+    "pytest-pretty",
 ]
 dev = ["black", "ipython", "isort", "mypy", "pre-commit"]
 docs = ["Jinja2", "magicgui>=0.3.3"]
diff --git a/tests/test_fetch.py b/tests/test_fetch.py
index 6f03f377..241b8569 100644
--- a/tests/test_fetch.py
+++ b/tests/test_fetch.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def test_fetch_npe2_manifest():
     assert mf.npe1_shim is False
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip("package looks deleted from pypi")
 def test_fetch_npe1_manifest_with_writer():
     mf = fetch_manifest("example-plugin")
     assert mf.name == "example-plugin"
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ def test_get_pypi_plugins():
     [
         "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fb/01/e59bc1d6ac96f84ce9d7a46cc5422250e047958ead6c5693ed386cf94003/napari_dv-0.3.0.tar.gz",  # noqa
         "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5d/ae/17779e12ce60d8329306963e1a8dec608465caee582440011ff0c1310715/example_plugin-0.0.7-py3-none-any.whl",  # noqa
-        "git+https://github.com/DragaDoncila/example-plugin.git",
+        # "git+https://github.com/DragaDoncila/example-plugin.git", Draga hide package
         # this one doesn't use setuptools_scm, can check direct zip without clone
         "https://github.com/jo-mueller/napari-stl-exporter/archive/refs/heads/main.zip",
     ],
diff --git a/tests/test_pytest_plugin.py b/tests/test_pytest_plugin.py
index b0d83e3d..45f6775d 100644
--- a/tests/test_pytest_plugin.py
+++ b/tests/test_pytest_plugin.py
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ def test_something_6(npe2pm):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("case", [CASE1, CASE2, CASE3, CASE4, CASE5, CASE6])
-def test_npe2pm_fixture(pytester: pytest.Pytester, case):
+def test_npe2pm_fixture(pytester_pretty: pytest.Pytester, case):
     """Make sure that the npe2pm fixture works."""
 
     # create a temporary pytest test file
-    pytester.makepyfile(case)
-    pytester.runpytest().assert_outcomes(passed=1)
+    pytester_pretty.makepyfile(case)
+    pytester_pretty.runpytest().assert_outcomes(passed=1)