diff --git a/.github/codecov.yml b/.github/codecov.yml
index 0a91a39..de7ffc8 100644
--- a/.github/codecov.yml
+++ b/.github/codecov.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ flag_management:
     - name: python
       paths:
         - "src/mqt/**/*.py"
-      after_n_builds: 12
+      after_n_builds: 10
       statuses:
         - type: project
           threshold: 0.5%
diff --git a/noxfile.py b/noxfile.py
index f4b98fe..b1e22a2 100644
--- a/noxfile.py
+++ b/noxfile.py
@@ -20,10 +20,16 @@
 
 PYTHON_ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
+# The following lists all the build requirements for building the package.
+# Note that this includes transitive build dependencies of package dependencies,
+# since we use `--no-build-isolation` to install the package in editable mode
+# and get better caching performance. This only concerns dependencies that are
+# not available via wheels on PyPI (i.e., only as source distributions).
 BUILD_REQUIREMENTS = [
     "scikit-build-core[pyproject]>=0.8.1",
     "setuptools_scm>=7",
     "pybind11>=2.12",
+    "wheel>=0.40",  # transitive dependency of pytest on Windows
 ]
 
 if os.environ.get("CI", None):
@@ -72,7 +78,7 @@ def tests(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     _run_tests(session)
 
 
-@nox.session(reuse_venv=True, venv_backend="uv")
+@nox.session(reuse_venv=True, venv_backend="uv", python=PYTHON_ALL_VERSIONS)
 def minimums(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     """Test the minimum versions of dependencies."""
     _run_tests(