diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 6adcdfa9..f50a98f7 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ jobs:
       - run:
           name: run flask tests
           command: | 
+            . venv/bin/activate
             # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
             flake8 . --count --select=E901,E999,F821,F822,F823 --show-source --statistics
             # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings.  The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
             flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
 
+      - run:
           name: run tests
           command: |
             . venv/bin/activate