diff --git a/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst b/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst
index 4d36c25fe4..e4afb4992b 100644
--- a/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst
+++ b/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst
@@ -32,11 +32,10 @@ Install prerequisites::
     sudo zypper install git git-review libffi-devel libmysqlclient-devel \
                         libopenssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel \
                         postgresql-devel python-devel python-flake8 \
-                        python-nose python-pip python-setuptools-git \
+                        python-pip python-setuptools-git \
                         python-testrepository python-tox python-virtualenv \
                         gettext-runtime
 
-    sudo easy_install nose
     sudo pip install virtualenv setuptools-git flake8 tox testrepository
 
 If using RHEL and yum reports "No package python-pip available" and "No
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 67fd5e3524..283f707f69 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ discover
 fixtures>=1.3.1
 hacking<0.11,>=0.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 mock>=1.0
-nose
 oslosphinx>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.5.1 # Apache-2.0
 python-subunit>=0.0.18