diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 4619858847ed26bdb8d6e6adff8d620fd0084ae1..101fd7d81c562439bbfeacec078f2eb7d75daf03 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [MASTER]
+max-line-length = 119
 disable = 
     missing-module-docstring,
     too-few-public-methods
diff --git a/tests/test_lint.py b/tests/test_lint.py
index e0768d8abae8a3a5a0f30e1edb4e9cd9b0fc4c63..1d8d6f1379b227fe928fdfddff7adbc7d252433b 100644
--- a/tests/test_lint.py
+++ b/tests/test_lint.py
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 from unittest import TestCase
 #pylint: disable=missing-class-docstring,missing-function-docstring
+import sys
+import pathlib
 from pylint import epylint
 
 
 class CodeQualityCase(TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.vcsroot = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent.absolute()
+        self.rcfile = self.vcsroot.joinpath('.pylintrc')
+
     def test_source_quality(self):
-        self.assertEqual(0, epylint.lint("coffee_bot", ["--fail-under=9.5"]))
+        self.assertEqual(0, epylint.lint("coffee_bot", ["--fail-under=9.5", f"--rcfile={self.rcfile}"]))
 
     def test_test_quality(self):
-        self.assertEqual(0, epylint.lint("tests", ["--fail-under=9.5"]))
+        self.assertEqual(0, epylint.lint("tests", ["--fail-under=9.5", f"--rcfile={self.rcfile}"]))