diff --git a/.github/workflows/cygwin-test.yml b/.github/workflows/cygwin-test.yml
index 1563afc95..cae828099 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cygwin-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cygwin-test.yml
@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
         set +x
-        /usr/bin/python -m pytest -v
+        /usr/bin/python -m pytest -p no:sugar -v --instafail
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index a311798e2..9ac1088f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
-        pytest -v
+        pytest -v -p no:sugar --instafail
       continue-on-error: false
 
     - name: Documentation
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0466ed4c4..f4fc33fec 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 python_files = 'test_*.py'
 testpaths = 'test'  # space separated list of paths from root e.g test tests doc/testing
-addopts = '--cov=git --cov-report=term --force-sugar --disable-warnings'
+addopts = '--cov=git --cov-report=term --disable-warnings'
 filterwarnings = 'ignore::DeprecationWarning'
 # --cov   coverage
 # --cov-report term  # send report to terminal term-missing -> terminal with line numbers  html  xml
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index b00dd6f06..1c08c736f 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ mypy
 pre-commit
 pytest
 pytest-cov
+pytest-instafail
 pytest-sugar