diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml
index 1b606b35f6..26c427e2d9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_test-full.yml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ jobs:
         python -c "fname = 'requirements/base.txt' ; req = open(fname).read().replace('>=', '==') ; open(fname, 'w').write(req)"
         python -c "fname = 'requirements/extra.txt' ; req = open(fname).read().replace('>=', '==') ; open(fname, 'w').write(req)"
         python -c "fname = 'requirements/test.txt' ; req = open(fname).read().replace('>=', '==') ; open(fname, 'w').write(req)"
+        python -c "fname = 'requirements/examples.txt' ; req = open(fname).read().replace('>=', '==') ; open(fname, 'w').write(req)"
 
     # Note: This uses an internal pip API and may not always work
     # https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/master/examples.md#multiple-oss-in-a-workflow
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Tests
       run: |
         # NOTE: do not include coverage report here, see: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1003
-        coverage run --source pytorch_lightning -m pytest pytorch_lightning tests -v --durations=0 --junitxml=junit/test-results-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.requires }}.xml
+        coverage run --source pytorch_lightning -m pytest pytorch_lightning tests pl_examples -v --durations=0 --junitxml=junit/test-results-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.requires }}.xml
 
     - name: Upload pytest test results
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
diff --git a/pl_examples/basic_examples/autoencoder.py b/pl_examples/basic_examples/autoencoder.py
index 493b54ad3b..505b36c74d 100644
--- a/pl_examples/basic_examples/autoencoder.py
+++ b/pl_examples/basic_examples/autoencoder.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from torch.utils.data import random_split
 try:
     from torchvision.datasets.mnist import MNIST
     from torchvision import transforms
-except Exception as e:
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
     from tests.base.datasets import MNIST
 
 
diff --git a/tests/examples/test_examples.py b/pl_examples/test_examples.py
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/examples/test_examples.py
rename to pl_examples/test_examples.py
diff --git a/requirements/devel.txt b/requirements/devel.txt
index 7ca9e04d7e..38f3fdf9d8 100644
--- a/requirements/devel.txt
+++ b/requirements/devel.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,7 @@
 -r ./extra.txt
 
 # extended list of dependencies dor development and run lint and tests
--r ./test.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+-r ./test.txt
+
+# install all extra dependencies for running examples
+-r ./examples.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements/examples.txt b/requirements/examples.txt
index 24506bbba7..c87d10a393 100644
--- a/requirements/examples.txt
+++ b/requirements/examples.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-torchvision>=0.4.0
+torchvision>=0.4.1
 gym>=0.17.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/examples/__init__.py b/tests/examples/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000