diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index eb9c6c60..100e5b35 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ unittest2 # BSD
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 mock>=2.0 # BSD
 nose # LGPL
-tempest>=11.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=12.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT