diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index e45c7c7..6747672 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: lint
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        ckan-version: ["2.10", 2.9, 2.9-py2, 2.8, 2.7]
+        ckan-version: ["2.10", 2.9, 2.9-py2, 2.8]
       fail-fast: false
 
     name: CKAN ${{ matrix.ckan-version }}
@@ -49,19 +49,27 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Install requirements
       run: |
-        pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+        pip install -r requirements.txt
         pip install -e .
         # Replace default path to CKAN core config file with the one on the container
         sed -i -e 's/use = config:.*/use = config:\/srv\/app\/src\/ckan\/test-core.ini/' test.ini
-    - name: Setup extension (CKAN >= 2.9)
-      if: ${{ matrix.ckan-version != '2.7' && matrix.ckan-version != '2.8' }}
+    - name: Setup extension (CKAN 2.10)
+      if: ${{ matrix.ckan-version == '2.10' }}
       run: |
+        pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+        ckan -c test.ini db init
+        ckan -c test.ini db upgrade -p googleanalytics
+    - name: Setup extension (CKAN == 2.9)
+      if: ${{ matrix.ckan-version == '2.9' ||  matrix.ckan-version == '2.9-py2' }}
+      run: |
+        pip install -r dev-requirements-2.9.txt
         ckan -c test.ini db init
         ckan -c test.ini db upgrade -p googleanalytics
     - name: Setup extension (CKAN < 2.9)
-      if: ${{ matrix.ckan-version == '2.7' || matrix.ckan-version == '2.8' }}
+      if: ${{ matrix.ckan-version == '2.8' }}
       run: |
+        pip install -r dev-requirements-2.9.txt
         paster --plugin=ckan db init -c test.ini
         paster --plugin=ckanext-googleanalytics initdb -c test.ini
     - name: Run tests
-      run: pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini --disable-warnings ckanext/googleanalytics/tests
+      run: pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini --cov=ckanext.googleanalytics --disable-warnings ckanext/googleanalytics/tests
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5ad362..117ae25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Status:** Production
 
-**CKAN Version:** >= 2.7
+**CKAN Version:** >= 2.8
 
 A CKAN extension that both sends tracking data to Google Analytics and
 retrieves statistics from Google Analytics and inserts them into CKAN pages.
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ See `Googles' documentation<https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034342?
    set up the required database tables (of course, altering the
    ``--config`` option to point to your site config file):
 
-		paster initdb --config=../ckan/development.ini
+		ckan -c ../ckan/ckan.ini initdb
 
 3. Follow the steps in the *Authorization* section below.
 
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ Before ckanext-googleanalytics can retrieve statistics from Google Analytics, yo
 
 There are some very high-level functional tests that you can run using::
 
-	(pyenv)~/pyenv/src/ckan$ nosetests --ckan ../ckanext-googleanalytics/tests/
+   $ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+	$ pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini 
 
-(note -- that's run from the CKAN software root, not the extension root)
 
 ## Future
 
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py
index 3104c49..33b6873 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/controller.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import logging
 from ckan.lib.base import BaseController, c, render, request
 from . import dbutil
 
-import ckan.logic as logic
 import hashlib
 from . import plugin
 
@@ -12,17 +11,9 @@ from paste.util.multidict import MultiDict
 
 from ckan.controllers.api import ApiController
 
-from ckan.exceptions import CkanVersionException
 import ckan.plugins.toolkit as tk
 from ckanext.googleanalytics import utils
 
-try:
-    tk.requires_ckan_version("2.9")
-except CkanVersionException:
-    pass
-else:
-    from builtins import str
-
 
 log = logging.getLogger("ckanext.googleanalytics")
 
@@ -56,7 +47,7 @@ class GAApiController(ApiController):
 
     def action(self, logic_function, ver=None):
         try:
-            function = logic.get_action(logic_function)
+            function = tk.get_action(logic_function)
             side_effect_free = getattr(function, "side_effect_free", False)
             request_data = self._get_request_data(
                 try_url_params=side_effect_free
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/dbutil.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/dbutil.py
index 9602d75..53f019e 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/dbutil.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/dbutil.py
@@ -78,36 +78,6 @@ def get_resource_visits_for_url(url):
     return count and count[0] or ""
 
 
-""" get_top_packages is broken, and needs to be rewritten to work with
-CKAN 2.*. This is because ckan.authz has been removed in CKAN 2.*
-
-See commit ffa86c010d5d25fa1881c6b915e48f3b44657612
-"""
-
-
-def get_top_packages(limit=20):
-    items = []
-    # caveat emptor: the query below will not filter out private
-    # or deleted datasets (TODO)
-    q = model.Session.query(model.Package)
-    connection = model.Session.connection()
-    package_stats = get_table("package_stats")
-    s = select(
-        [
-            package_stats.c.package_id,
-            package_stats.c.visits_recently,
-            package_stats.c.visits_ever,
-        ]
-    ).order_by(package_stats.c.visits_recently.desc())
-    res = connection.execute(s).fetchmany(limit)
-    for package_id, recent, ever in res:
-        item = q.filter(text("package.id = '%s'" % package_id))
-        if not item.count():
-            continue
-        items.append((item.first(), recent, ever))
-    return items
-
-
 def get_top_resources(limit=20):
     items = []
     connection = model.Session.connection()
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/tests/conftest.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/tests/conftest.py
index 7fe6cf5..9669f92 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/tests/conftest.py
@@ -3,16 +3,25 @@ import factory
 
 from factory.alchemy import SQLAlchemyModelFactory
 from pytest_factoryboy import register
+from ckan.plugins import toolkit
 
 import ckan.model as model
 
 from ckanext.googleanalytics.model import PackageStats, ResourceStats
 
 
-@pytest.fixture()
-def clean_db(reset_db, migrate_db_for):
-    reset_db()
-    migrate_db_for("googleanalytics")
+if toolkit.check_ckan_version("2.9"):
+    @pytest.fixture()
+    def clean_db(reset_db, migrate_db_for):
+        reset_db()
+        migrate_db_for("googleanalytics")
+else:
+    from ckanext.googleanalytics.dbutil import init_tables
+
+    @pytest.fixture()
+    def clean_db(reset_db):
+        reset_db()
+        init_tables()
 
 
 @register
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/views.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/views.py
index 392e613..904d76e 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/views.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/views.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import six
 from flask import Blueprint
 from werkzeug.utils import import_string
 
-import ckan.logic as logic
 import ckan.plugins.toolkit as tk
 import ckan.views.api as api
 import ckan.views.resource as resource
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ ga = Blueprint("google_analytics", "google_analytics")
 
 def action(logic_function, ver=api.API_MAX_VERSION):
     try:
-        function = logic.get_action(logic_function)
+        function = tk.get_action(logic_function)
         side_effect_free = getattr(function, "side_effect_free", False)
         request_data = api._get_request_data(try_url_params=side_effect_free)
         if isinstance(request_data, dict):
diff --git a/dev-requirements-2.9.txt b/dev-requirements-2.9.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53c02d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-requirements-2.9.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pytest<=6.0.2
+pytest-ckan
+pytest-factoryboy
+pytest-cov
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index dfb701d..172902c 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-pytest-ckan
-pytest-factoryboy
+pytest-ckan
\ No newline at end of file