diff --git a/features/environment.py b/features/environment.py
index b2b859590b..b7a9e738aa 100644
--- a/features/environment.py
+++ b/features/environment.py
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 import venv
 from pathlib import Path
 
+try:
+    import tomllib
+except ImportError:
+    import tomli as tomllib  # type: ignore
+
 from features.steps.sh_run import run
 
 _PATHS_TO_REMOVE: set[Path] = set()
@@ -115,13 +120,33 @@ def _setup_minimal_env(context):
 
 
 def _install_project_requirements(context):
-    install_reqs = (
-        Path(
-            "kedro/templates/project/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/dev-requirements.txt"
-        )
-        .read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-        .splitlines()
-    )
+    # HACK: Dev requirements of the project are stored in pyproject.toml,
+    # but the file cannot be directly loaded because it's a cookicutter template,
+    # so we read only the part that we need
+    with open(
+        "kedro/templates/project/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/pyproject.toml",
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    ) as pyproject_fh:
+        _buffer = []
+        while True:
+            try:
+                line = next(pyproject_fh)
+            except StopIteration as exc:
+                raise RuntimeError("Error while reading project dependencies") from exc
+
+            if line.startswith("[project.optional-dependencies]"):
+                _buffer.append(line)
+                for line in pyproject_fh:
+                    if line.startswith("["):
+                        break
+
+                    _buffer.append(line)
+                break
+
+    _meta = tomllib.loads("\n".join(_buffer))
+    install_reqs = _meta["project"]["optional-dependencies"]["dev"]
+    # EOH
+
     install_reqs = [req for req in install_reqs if "{" not in req]
     install_reqs.append(".[pandas.CSVDataSet]")
     call([context.pip, "install", *install_reqs], env=context.env)
diff --git a/test_requirements.txt b/test_requirements.txt
index cc448d41f7..4fc4d73783 100644
--- a/test_requirements.txt
+++ b/test_requirements.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ SQLAlchemy~=1.2
 tables~=3.6.0; platform_system == "Windows" and python_version<'3.9'
 tables~=3.6; platform_system != "Windows"
 tensorflow~=2.0
+tomli~=2.0.1; python_version < '3.11'
 triad>=0.6.7, <1.0
 trufflehog~=2.1
 xlsxwriter~=1.0