diff --git a/IPython/testing/iptest.py b/IPython/testing/iptest.py
index a6e8c9f6c..3cbb78068 100644
--- a/IPython/testing/iptest.py
+++ b/IPython/testing/iptest.py
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ have['jinja2'] = test_for('jinja2')
 have['requests'] = test_for('requests')
 have['sphinx'] = test_for('sphinx')
 have['jsonschema'] = test_for('jsonschema')
+have['jsonpointer'] = test_for('jsonpointer')
 have['casperjs'] = is_cmd_found('casperjs')
 have['phantomjs'] = is_cmd_found('phantomjs')
 have['slimerjs'] = is_cmd_found('slimerjs')
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ test_sections['qt'].requires('zmq', 'qt', 'pygments')
 
 # html:
 sec = test_sections['html']
-sec.requires('zmq', 'tornado', 'requests', 'sqlite3', 'jsonschema')
+sec.requires('zmq', 'tornado', 'requests', 'sqlite3', 'jsonschema', 'jsonpointer')
 # The notebook 'static' directory contains JS, css and other
 # files for web serving.  Occasionally projects may put a .py
 # file in there (MathJax ships a conf.py), so we might as
@@ -285,7 +286,7 @@ test_sections['config'].exclude('profile')
 
 # nbconvert:
 sec = test_sections['nbconvert']
-sec.requires('pygments', 'jinja2', 'jsonschema')
+sec.requires('pygments', 'jinja2', 'jsonschema', 'jsonpointer')
 # Exclude nbconvert directories containing config files used to test.
 # Executing the config files with iptest would cause an exception.
 sec.exclude('tests.files')
@@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ if not have['tornado']:
     sec.exclude('nbconvert.post_processors.tests.test_serve')
 
 # nbformat:
-test_sections['nbformat'].requires('jsonschema')
+test_sections['nbformat'].requires('jsonschema', 'jsonpointer')
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Functions and classes