diff --git a/tests/test_read_simple_bitext.py b/tests/test_read_simple_bitext.py
index f9581a369..016109d18 100644
--- a/tests/test_read_simple_bitext.py
+++ b/tests/test_read_simple_bitext.py
@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@
 
 # The source/target file paths will be concatenated as document ID in `ParallelDataset`, so we can't directly pass a `Path` object.
 @pytest.fixture
-def src_file():
-    return Path("tests/bitext_data/toy.de").absolute().as_posix()
+def src_file(pytestconfig):
+    root_dir = Path(pytestconfig.rootdir)
+    return (root_dir / "tests" / "bitext_data" / "toy.de").absolute().as_posix()
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def tgt_file():
-    return Path("tests/bitext_data/toy.en").absolute().as_posix()
+def tgt_file(pytestconfig):
+    root_dir = Path(pytestconfig.rootdir)
+    return (root_dir / "tests" / "bitext_data" / "toy.en").absolute().as_posix()
 
 
 class TestReadSimpleBitext: