diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 590f03ff..10c49e5a 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0
 sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
-tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testresources>=0.2.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testscenarios>=0.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD