diff --git a/hack/quick_install.sh b/hack/quick_install.sh
index 4e8cfb1e741..d8ce84207e2 100755
--- a/hack/quick_install.sh
+++ b/hack/quick_install.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ echo ${KUBE_VERSION:43:2}
 
 if [ ${KUBE_VERSION:43:2} -gt 20 ]; then export ISTIO_VERSION=1.10.3; export KNATIVE_VERSION=v0.23.2; fi
 
-curl -L https://git.io/getLatestIstio | sh -
+curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | sh -
 cd istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}
 
 # Create istio-system namespace
diff --git a/python/kserve/requirements.txt b/python/kserve/requirements.txt
index 70ff6de03c8..433caeadd28 100644
--- a/python/kserve/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/kserve/requirements.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ azure-storage-blob==12.8.1
 azure-identity>=1.6.0
 cloudevents>=1.2.0
 avro>=1.10.1
-boto3==1.18.18
-botocore==1.21.18
+boto3==1.20.24
 psutil>=5.0
 ray[serve]==1.9.0
 grpcio>=1.34.0
diff --git a/python/kserve/setup.py b/python/kserve/setup.py
index 2bbf4b0d537..23d867020c9 100644
--- a/python/kserve/setup.py
+++ b/python/kserve/setup.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 TESTS_REQUIRES = [
     'pytest',
+    'pytest-xdist',
     'pytest-cov',
     'pytest-asyncio',
     'pytest-tornasync',
diff --git a/test/scripts/run-e2e-tests.sh b/test/scripts/run-e2e-tests.sh
index 873726f9aa2..8c3d3be3131 100755
--- a/test/scripts/run-e2e-tests.sh
+++ b/test/scripts/run-e2e-tests.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Copyright 2019 The Kubeflow Authors.
+# Copyright 2021 The KServe Authors.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/hack
 echo "Install istio ..."
 mkdir istio_tmp
 pushd istio_tmp >/dev/null
-  curl -L https://git.io/getLatestIstio | ISTIO_VERSION=${ISTIO_VERSION} sh -
+  curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | ISTIO_VERSION=${ISTIO_VERSION} sh -
   cd istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}
   export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
   istioctl operator init
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ kubectl apply --validate=false -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/relea
 echo "Waiting for cert manager started ..."
 kubectl wait --for=condition=ready pod -l 'app in (cert-manager,webhook)' --timeout=180s -n cert-manager
 
-echo "Install KFServing ..."
+echo "Install KServe ..."
 export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
 export PATH="${PATH}:${GOPATH}/bin"
 
@@ -126,24 +126,19 @@ sed -i -e "s/latest/${PULL_BASE_SHA}/g" config/overlays/test/runtimes/kustomizat
 sed -i -e "s/latest/${PULL_BASE_SHA}/g" config/overlays/test/manager_image_patch.yaml
 make deploy-ci
 
-echo "Waiting for KFServing started ..."
+echo "Waiting for KServe started ..."
 kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pods --all --timeout=180s -n kserve
 kubectl get events -A
 
 echo "Creating a namespace kserve-ci-test ..."
 kubectl create namespace kserve-ci-e2e-test
 
-echo "Istio, Knative and KFServing have been installed and started."
+echo "Istio, Knative and KServe have been installed and started."
 
-echo "Installing KFServing Python SDK ..."
+echo "Installing KServe Python SDK ..."
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
-pip3 install pytest==6.0.2 pytest-xdist pytest-rerunfailures
-pip3 install --upgrade pytest-tornasync
-pip3 install urllib3==1.24.2
-pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
 pushd python/kserve >/dev/null
-    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
-    python3 setup.py install --force --user
+    pip3 install -e .[test] --user
 popd
 
 echo "Starting E2E functional tests ..."