diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 94526661e0..67ea6caed2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -78,6 +78,16 @@ The following dependencies are also needed for testing:
 pip install typing pytest scipy numpy parameterized
 ```
 
+Optional packages to install if you want to run related tests:
+
+- `librosa`
+- `requests`
+- `soundfile`
+- `kaldi_io`
+- `transformers`
+- `fairseq` (it has to be newer than `0.10.2`, so you will need to install from
+  source. Commit `e6eddd80` is known to work.)
+
 ## Development Process
 
 If you plan to modify the code or documentation, please follow the steps below:
diff --git a/test/torchaudio_unittest/README.md b/test/torchaudio_unittest/README.md
index 69f8498f05..dd6249fb4a 100644
--- a/test/torchaudio_unittest/README.md
+++ b/test/torchaudio_unittest/README.md
@@ -5,14 +5,10 @@
 You can use `pytest` to run `torchaudio`'s test suites. See
 https://docs.pytest.org/ for the detail of how to use `pytest` command.
 
-For testing, the following packages are needed:
+For testing, please refer to [contributing guide](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) for
+the installation of the required and optional packages.
 
-```bash
-pip install typing pytest scipy numpy parameterized
-```
-
-Make sure to follow the installation instruction in the [contributing
-guide](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) first. For running `kaldi`-related tests:
+For running `kaldi`-related tests:
 
 ```bash
 export PATH="${PATH}:<path_to_kaldi>/src/featbin/"
@@ -73,7 +69,7 @@ The following test modules are defined for corresponding `torchaudio` module/fun
 - [`torchaudio.compliance.kaldi`](./compliance_kaldi_test.py)
 - [`torchaudio.kaldi_io`](./kaldi_io_test.py)
 - [`torchaudio.sox_effects`](./sox_effect)
-- [`torchaudio.save`, `torchaudio.load`, `torchaudio.info`](./io_test.py)
+- [`torchaudio.backend`](./backend)
 
 ### Test modules that do not fall into the above categories
 - [test_dataloader.py](./dataloader_test.py)