diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 08f8dfbbc99607d17e94a056aaf06eba4786993c..74e5eeb68f1f0140ba4e7458b72bd4d293d7783f 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Imports:
 Suggests: 
     rmarkdown,
     knitr,
-    testthat (>= 3.0.0)
+    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
+    covr
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
 Config/testthat/edition: 3