diff --git a/doc/source/contribute.rst b/doc/source/contribute.rst
index 96dbb3e041..1510bd4ae8 100644
--- a/doc/source/contribute.rst
+++ b/doc/source/contribute.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ All internal methods should be fully covered by unit tests with a reasonable moc
 About Rally unit tests:
 
 - All `unit tests <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing>`_ are located inside /tests/unit/*
-- Tests are written on top of: *testtools*, *fixtures* and *mock* libs
+- Tests are written on top of: *testtools* and *mock* libs
 - `Tox <https://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ is used to run unit tests
 
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e0d9290904..014941c0c3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 alembic>=0.8.4 # MIT
 boto>=2.32.1 # MIT
 decorator>=3.4.0 # BSD
-fixtures<2.0,>=1.3.1 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 Jinja2>=2.8 # BSD License (3 clause)
 jsonschema!=2.5.0,<3.0.0,>=2.0.0 # MIT
 netaddr!=0.7.16,>=0.7.12 # BSD
diff --git a/tests/README.rst b/tests/README.rst
index 7e7d3cc99b..9d00ca5fd1 100644
--- a/tests/README.rst
+++ b/tests/README.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ All internal methods should be fully covered by unit tests with a reasonable moc
 About Rally unit tests:
 
 - All `unit tests <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing>`_ are located inside /tests/unit/*
-- Tests are written on top of: *testtools*, *fixtures* and *mock* libs
+- Tests are written on top of: *testtools* and *mock* libs
 - `Tox <https://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ is used to run unit tests