diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 7feebb5c9..f3bfd29a1 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # hacking should appear first in case something else depends on pep8
 hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
 
-coverage>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
+coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 ddt>=1.0.1 # MIT
 mock>=2.0 # BSD
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0