diff --git a/backend/poetry.lock b/backend/poetry.lock
index 9d7d82f7..408141bc 100644
--- a/backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/backend/poetry.lock
@@ -654,13 +654,13 @@ test = ["appdirs (==1.4.4)", "covdefaults (>=2.3)", "pytest (>=7.4)", "pytest-co
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pluggy"
-version = "1.3.0"
+version = "1.4.0"
 description = "plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pluggy-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d89c696a773f8bd377d18e5ecda92b7a3793cbe66c87060a6fb58c7b6e1061f7"},
-    {file = "pluggy-1.3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:cf61ae8f126ac6f7c451172cf30e3e43d3ca77615509771b3a984a0730651e12"},
+    {file = "pluggy-1.4.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7db9f7b503d67d1c5b95f59773ebb58a8c1c288129a88665838012cfb07b8981"},
+    {file = "pluggy-1.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8c85c2876142a764e5b7548e7d9a0e0ddb46f5185161049a79b7e974454223be"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -949,23 +949,23 @@ dev = ["twine (>=3.4.1)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "7.4.4"
+version = "8.1.1"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-7.4.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b090cdf5ed60bf4c45261be03239c2c1c22df034fbffe691abe93cd80cea01d8"},
-    {file = "pytest-7.4.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2cf0005922c6ace4a3e2ec8b4080eb0d9753fdc93107415332f50ce9e7994280"},
+    {file = "pytest-8.1.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2a8386cfc11fa9d2c50ee7b2a57e7d898ef90470a7a34c4b949ff59662bb78b7"},
+    {file = "pytest-8.1.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ac978141a75948948817d360297b7aae0fcb9d6ff6bc9ec6d514b85d5a65c044"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
 colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 iniconfig = "*"
 packaging = "*"
-pluggy = ">=0.12,<2.0"
+pluggy = ">=1.4,<2.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
+testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "python-dateutil"
@@ -1413,4 +1413,4 @@ scikit-learn = ">=1.2.2,<2.0.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.11"
-content-hash = "e3e51abe634438ca02f3e4fd1bc97f4039328ec745b0f2a040bbcfa2630bb27d"
+content-hash = "2d1012f77a430928f6cb3392beb78f505044e93dd3972ae66c7a242dd9fe0003"
diff --git a/backend/pyproject.toml b/backend/pyproject.toml
index 96ffd918..dff6ae70 100644
--- a/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ zeno-sliceline = "^0.0.1"
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 pre-commit = "^3.6.2"
 pyright = "^1.1.351"
-pytest = "^7.4.4"
+pytest = "^8.1.1"
 ruff = "^0.2.2"
 
 [build-system]