diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index f6fb66b7e..a00440fd6 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ openstackdocstheme>=1.17.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-mock>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
-tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=17.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 os-testr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0