diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R b/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
index 4349c40e7..dcd6607d4 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-DBItest.R
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ reg.finalizer(drv@database_ref, function(x) rapi_shutdown(x))
 # Then, use DBItest::test_some() to see the DBI calls emitted by the tests
 #
 # This call must stay here, otherwise DBItest::test_some() doesn't work
-DBItest::make_context(
+if (rlang::is_installed("DBItest")) DBItest::make_context(
   drv,
   # dblog::dblog(drv),
   list(debug = FALSE),
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R b/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R
index 50b04e9af..236bbe2cd 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-DBItest.R
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 skip_on_cran()
 
-DBItest::test_all(c(
+if (rlang::is_installed("DBItest")) DBItest::test_all(c(
   "package_name", # wontfix
   "package_dependencies", # wontfix
   "reexport", # wontfix