diff --git a/s3tests_boto3/functional/test_s3select.py b/s3tests_boto3/functional/test_s3select.py
index 7af4ef6..7570238 100644
--- a/s3tests_boto3/functional/test_s3select.py
+++ b/s3tests_boto3/functional/test_s3select.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import nose
 import random
+from nose.plugins.attrib import attr
+
 
 from . import (
     get_client
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ def generate_s3select_expression_projection(bucket_name,obj_name):
         # both results should be close (epsilon)
         assert (1 - (float(res.split("\n")[1]) / eval( e )) ) < epsilon
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_generate_where_clause():
 
     # create small csv file for testing the random expressions
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ def test_generate_where_clause():
     for _ in range(100): 
         generate_s3select_where_clause(bucket_name,obj_name)
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_generate_projection():
 
     # create small csv file for testing the random expressions
@@ -156,6 +160,7 @@ def create_list_of_int(column_pos,obj,field_split=",",row_split="\n"):
 
     return list_of_int
        
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_count_operation():
     csv_obj_name = "csv_star_oper"
     bucket_name = "test"
@@ -166,6 +171,7 @@ def test_count_operation():
 
     nose.tools.assert_equal( num_of_rows, int( res ))
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_column_sum_min_max():
     csv_obj = create_random_csv_object(10000,10)
 
@@ -224,6 +230,7 @@ def test_column_sum_min_max():
 
     nose.tools.assert_equal( int(count)*4 , int(sum1)-int(sum2) )
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_complex_expressions():
 
     # purpose of test: engine is process correctly several projections containing aggregation-functions 
@@ -255,6 +262,7 @@ def test_complex_expressions():
 
     nose.tools.assert_equal( res_s3select_between_numbers, res_s3select_eq_modolu)
     
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_alias():
 
     # purpose: test is comparing result of exactly the same queries , one with alias the other without.
@@ -275,6 +283,7 @@ def test_alias():
     nose.tools.assert_equal( res_s3select_alias, res_s3select_no_alias)
 
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_alias_cyclic_refernce():
 
     number_of_rows = 10000
@@ -292,6 +301,7 @@ def test_alias_cyclic_refernce():
     
     assert int(find_res) >= 0 
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_datetime():
 
     # purpose of test is to validate date-time functionality is correct,
@@ -325,6 +335,7 @@ def test_datetime():
 
     nose.tools.assert_equal( res_s3select_date_time_utcnow, res_s3select_count)
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_csv_parser():
 
     # purpuse: test default csv values(, \n " \ ), return value may contain meta-char 
@@ -364,6 +375,7 @@ def test_csv_parser():
     res_s3select_alias = remove_xml_tags_from_result(  run_s3select(bucket_name,csv_obj_name,"select _9 from stdin;")  ).replace("\n","")
     nose.tools.assert_equal( res_s3select_alias, ',')
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_csv_definition():
 
     number_of_rows = 10000
@@ -393,6 +405,7 @@ def test_csv_definition():
     nose.tools.assert_equal( res_s3select, __res )
 
 
+@attr('s3select')
 def test_schema_definition():
 
     number_of_rows = 10000