diff --git a/jq.changes b/jq.changes
index bd09f25..cdaede8 100644
--- a/jq.changes
+++ b/jq.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jan  2 08:47:00 UTC 2017 - mpluskal@suse.com
+
+- Update tests dependencies to increase test coverage (bsc#1017157)
+  * valgrind based tests were skipped
+- Do not run tests in qemu builds, valgrind does not work reliably
+  in such conditions
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jul 16 10:14:33 UTC 2016 - mpluskal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/jq.spec b/jq.spec
index ebd23d6..2c82173 100644
--- a/jq.spec
+++ b/jq.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package jq
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Url:            http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
 Source:         https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-%{version}/jq-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch1:         CVE-2015-8863.patch
 BuildRequires:  chrpath
+BuildRequires:  flex
 BuildRequires:  oniguruma-devel
+BuildRequires:  valgrind
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ Development files (headers and libraries for jq).
 %build
 %configure \
   --disable-static \
-  --disable-silent-rules 
+  --disable-silent-rules
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
@@ -73,7 +75,9 @@ rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libjq.la
 rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/%{name}
 
 %check
-make check
+%if "%{qemu_user_space_build}" == "0"
+make %{?_smp_mflags} check
+%endif
 
 %post -n libjq1 -p /sbin/ldconfig
 %postun -n libjq1 -p /sbin/ldconfig