diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 2400b321..f875af6b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
 testscenarios>=0.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0
-tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0