diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 96e5adf1..2520fc1a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ virtualenv:
   system_site_packages: true
 
 install:
-  - pip install xlwt
-  - pip install xlsxwriter
   - git clone https://github.com/OCA/maintainer-quality-tools.git ${HOME}/maintainer-quality-tools
   - export PATH=${HOME}/maintainer-quality-tools/travis:${PATH}
   - travis_install_nightly ${VERSION}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3ccfc8e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+xlwt
+xlsxwriter