diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 83f0793f7..202712027 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ test=[
     "pytest-rerunfailures",
     "mypy",
     "ruff",
+    "requests-mock",
 ]
 examples=[
     "matplotlib",
diff --git a/tests/files/mock_responses/datasets/data_description_61.xml b/tests/files/mock_responses/datasets/data_description_61.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc25e5861
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/files/mock_responses/datasets/data_description_61.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<oml:data_set_description xmlns:oml="http://openml.org/openml">
+  <oml:id>61</oml:id>
+  <oml:name>iris</oml:name>
+  <oml:version>1</oml:version>
+  <oml:description>**Author**: R.A. Fisher  
+**Source**: [UCI](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris) - 1936 - Donated by Michael Marshall  
+**Please cite**:   
+
+**Iris Plants Database**  
+This is perhaps the best known database to be found in the pattern recognition literature.  Fisher's paper is a classic in the field and is referenced frequently to this day.  (See Duda &amp; Hart, for example.)  The data set contains 3 classes of 50 instances each, where each class refers to a type of iris plant.  One class is     linearly separable from the other 2; the latter are NOT linearly separable from each other.
+
+Predicted attribute: class of iris plant.  
+This is an exceedingly simple domain.  
+ 
+### Attribute Information:
+    1. sepal length in cm
+    2. sepal width in cm
+    3. petal length in cm
+    4. petal width in cm
+    5. class: 
+       -- Iris Setosa
+       -- Iris Versicolour
+       -- Iris Virginica</oml:description>
+  <oml:description_version>4</oml:description_version>
+  <oml:format>ARFF</oml:format>
+  <oml:creator>R.A. Fisher</oml:creator>     <oml:collection_date>1936</oml:collection_date>  <oml:upload_date>2014-04-06T23:23:39</oml:upload_date>
+  <oml:language>English</oml:language>  <oml:licence>Public</oml:licence>  <oml:url>https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/61/iris.arff</oml:url>
+  <oml:parquet_url>https://data.openml.org/datasets/0000/0061/dataset_61.pq</oml:parquet_url>  <oml:file_id>61</oml:file_id>  <oml:default_target_attribute>class</oml:default_target_attribute>      <oml:version_label>1</oml:version_label>  <oml:citation>https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/citation_policy.html</oml:citation>  <oml:tag>Botany</oml:tag><oml:tag>Ecology</oml:tag><oml:tag>Kaggle</oml:tag><oml:tag>Machine Learning</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_1</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_25</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_4</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_41</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_50</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_52</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_7</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_86</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_88</oml:tag><oml:tag>study_89</oml:tag><oml:tag>uci</oml:tag>  <oml:visibility>public</oml:visibility>  <oml:original_data_url>https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris</oml:original_data_url>  <oml:paper_url>http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/15227</oml:paper_url>  <oml:minio_url>https://data.openml.org/datasets/0000/0061/dataset_61.pq</oml:minio_url>  <oml:status>active</oml:status>
+  <oml:processing_date>2020-11-20 19:02:18</oml:processing_date>      <oml:md5_checksum>ad484452702105cbf3d30f8deaba39a9</oml:md5_checksum>
+</oml:data_set_description>
diff --git a/tests/test_datasets/test_dataset_functions.py b/tests/test_datasets/test_dataset_functions.py
index 1dc9daab1..33c853f3a 100644
--- a/tests/test_datasets/test_dataset_functions.py
+++ b/tests/test_datasets/test_dataset_functions.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import pandas as pd
 import pytest
 import requests
+import requests_mock
 import scipy.sparse
 from oslo_concurrency import lockutils
 
@@ -1505,16 +1506,6 @@ def test_data_fork(self):
             data_id=999999,
         )
 
-    @pytest.mark.production()
-    def test_get_dataset_parquet(self):
-        # Parquet functionality is disabled on the test server
-        # There is no parquet-copy of the test server yet.
-        openml.config.server = self.production_server
-        dataset = openml.datasets.get_dataset(61, download_data=True)
-        assert dataset._parquet_url is not None
-        assert dataset.parquet_file is not None
-        assert os.path.isfile(dataset.parquet_file)
-        assert dataset.data_file is None  # is alias for arff path
 
     @pytest.mark.production()
     def test_list_datasets_with_high_size_parameter(self):
@@ -1960,3 +1951,17 @@ def test_read_features_from_xml_with_whitespace() -> None:
     features_file = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "files" / "misc" / "features_with_whitespaces.xml"
     dict = _read_features(features_file)
     assert dict[1].nominal_values == [" - 50000.", " 50000+."]
+
+
+def test_get_dataset_parquet(requests_mock, test_files_directory):
+    # Parquet functionality is disabled on the test server
+    # There is no parquet-copy of the test server yet.
+    content_file = (
+            test_files_directory / "mock_responses" / "datasets" / "data_description_61.xml"
+    )
+    requests_mock.get("https://www.openml.org/api/v1/xml/data/61", text=content_file.read_text())
+    dataset = openml.datasets.get_dataset(61, download_data=True)
+    assert dataset._parquet_url is not None
+    assert dataset.parquet_file is not None
+    assert os.path.isfile(dataset.parquet_file)
+    assert dataset.data_file is None  # is alias for arff path