diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 0a7e94a..60b06f2 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #       requirements.  They are intertwined.  Also, Zaza itself should specify
 #       all of its own requirements and if it doesn't, fix it there.
 #
+pyparsing<3.0.0  # aodhclient is pinned in zaza and needs pyparsing < 3.0.0, but cffi also needs it, so pin here.
 cffi==1.14.6; python_version < '3.6'  # cffi 1.15.0 drops support for py35.
 setuptools<50.0.0  # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/04e3df22df840c6bb244e9b27bc56750c44b7c85