diff --git a/docs/contributing/developing.rst b/docs/contributing/developing.rst
index 01e5447961..818bb9e8d0 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/developing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing/developing.rst
@@ -90,10 +90,8 @@ the tests against it.
 
 **Testing Elasticsearch**
 
-To test Elasticsearch, you need to have the ``elasticsearch`` package installed.
-
-Once installed, you can test Wagtail with Elasticsearch by passing the
-``--elasticsearch`` argument to ``runtests.py``::
+You can test Wagtail against Elasticsearch by passing the ``--elasticsearch``
+argument to ``runtests.py``::
 
     python runtests.py --elasticsearch
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 8b55456462..64468d0cea 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ mock>=1.0.0
 python-dateutil>=2.2
 pytz>=2014.7
 Pillow>=2.7.0
+elasticsearch>=1.0.0
 
 # For coverage and PEP8 linting
 coverage>=3.7.0