diff --git a/src/milvus_haystack/__about__.py b/src/milvus_haystack/__about__.py
index 8402d78..4dcc8e0 100644
--- a/src/milvus_haystack/__about__.py
+++ b/src/milvus_haystack/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023-present Tuana Celik <tuana.celik@deepset.ai>
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-__version__ = "0.0.7"
+__version__ = "0.0.8"
diff --git a/tests/test_document_store.py b/tests/test_document_store.py
index 605de20..af48adc 100644
--- a/tests/test_document_store.py
+++ b/tests/test_document_store.py
@@ -10,18 +10,17 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS = {
+    "uri": "http://localhost:19530",
+    # "uri": "./milvus_test.db",  # This uri works for Milvus Lite
+}
+
 
 class TestDocumentStore(CountDocumentsTest, WriteDocumentsTest, DeleteDocumentsTest):
     @pytest.fixture
     def document_store(self) -> MilvusDocumentStore:
         return MilvusDocumentStore(
-            connection_args={
-                "host": "localhost",
-                "port": "19530",
-                "user": "",
-                "password": "",
-                "secure": False,
-            },
+            connection_args=DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS,
             drop_old=True,
         )
 
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ def test_to_and_from_dict(self, document_store: MilvusDocumentStore):
                 "collection_name": "HaystackCollection",
                 "collection_description": "",
                 "collection_properties": None,
-                "connection_args": {"host": "localhost", "port": "19530", "user": "", "password": "", "secure": False},
+                "connection_args": DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS,
                 "consistency_level": "Session",
                 "index_params": None,
                 "search_params": None,
@@ -78,6 +77,6 @@ def test_to_and_from_dict(self, document_store: MilvusDocumentStore):
         assert document_store_dict == expected_dict
         reconstructed_document_store = MilvusDocumentStore.from_dict(document_store_dict)
         for field in vars(reconstructed_document_store):
-            if field.startswith("__"):
+            if field.startswith("__") or field == "alias":
                 continue
             assert getattr(reconstructed_document_store, field) == getattr(document_store, field)
diff --git a/tests/test_embedding_retriever.py b/tests/test_embedding_retriever.py
index f41b482..c4fa0d7 100644
--- a/tests/test_embedding_retriever.py
+++ b/tests/test_embedding_retriever.py
@@ -8,18 +8,17 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS = {
+    "uri": "http://localhost:19530",
+    # "uri": "./milvus_test.db",  # This uri works for Milvus Lite
+}
+
 
 class TestMilvusEmbeddingTests:
     @pytest.fixture
     def document_store(self) -> MilvusDocumentStore:
         return MilvusDocumentStore(
-            connection_args={
-                "host": "localhost",
-                "port": "19530",
-                "user": "",
-                "password": "",
-                "secure": False,
-            },
+            connection_args=DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS,
             drop_old=True,
         )
 
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ def test_to_dict(self, document_store: MilvusDocumentStore):
                 "collection_name": "HaystackCollection",
                 "collection_description": "",
                 "collection_properties": None,
-                "connection_args": {"host": "localhost", "port": "19530", "user": "", "password": "", "secure": False},
+                "connection_args": DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS,
                 "consistency_level": "Session",
                 "index_params": None,
                 "search_params": None,
@@ -82,13 +81,7 @@ def test_from_dict(self, document_store: MilvusDocumentStore):
                         "collection_name": "HaystackCollection",
                         "collection_description": "",
                         "collection_properties": None,
-                        "connection_args": {
-                            "host": "localhost",
-                            "port": "19530",
-                            "user": "",
-                            "password": "",
-                            "secure": False,
-                        },
+                        "connection_args": DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ARGS,
                         "consistency_level": "Session",
                         "index_params": None,
                         "search_params": None,
@@ -115,7 +108,7 @@ def test_from_dict(self, document_store: MilvusDocumentStore):
                 continue
             elif field == "document_store":
                 for doc_store_field in vars(document_store):
-                    if doc_store_field.startswith("__"):
+                    if doc_store_field.startswith("__") or doc_store_field == "alias":
                         continue
                     assert getattr(reconstructed_retriever.document_store, doc_store_field) == getattr(
                         document_store, doc_store_field