diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 287db4cf50..7cb052f0df 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ include/swift_objects/swift_large
 dist
 build
 .testrepository
+.stestr
 .idea
 .project
 .pydevproject
diff --git a/.stestr.conf b/.stestr.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e3201c13c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.stestr.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+test_path=./tempest/test_discover
+group_regex=([^\.]*\.)*
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 36b9efab1d..9bb7a55b78 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ PyYAML>=3.10 # MIT
 python-subunit>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 stevedore>=1.20.0 # Apache-2.0
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7.1 # BSD
-os-testr>=0.8.0 # Apache-2.0
+os-testr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 urllib3>=1.21.1 # MIT
 debtcollector>=1.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 unittest2 # BSD
diff --git a/tempest/tests/test_list_tests.py b/tempest/tests/test_list_tests.py
index a238879656..4af74630d5 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/test_list_tests.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/test_list_tests.py
@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ from tempest.tests import base
 
 class TestTestList(base.TestCase):
 
-    def test_testr_list_tests_no_errors(self):
-        # Remove unit test discover path from env to test tempest tests
+    def test_stestr_list_no_errors(self):
         test_env = os.environ.copy()
-        test_env.pop('OS_TEST_PATH')
         import_failures = []
-        p = subprocess.Popen(['testr', 'list-tests'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        p = subprocess.Popen(['stestr', 'list'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                              env=test_env)
         ids, err = p.communicate()
         self.assertEqual(0, p.returncode,
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 7bdc580800..21696eb511 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -16,12 +16,11 @@ deps =
 [testenv]
 setenv =
     VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
-    OS_TEST_PATH=./tempest/tests
     OS_LOG_CAPTURE=1
     PYTHONWARNINGS=default::DeprecationWarning
     BRANCH_NAME=master
     CLIENT_NAME=tempest
-passenv = OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE OS_STDERR_CAPTURE OS_TEST_TIMEOUT OS_TEST_LOCK_PATH OS_TEST_PATH TEMPEST_CONFIG TEMPEST_CONFIG_DIR http_proxy HTTP_PROXY https_proxy HTTPS_PROXY no_proxy NO_PROXY ZUUL_CACHE_DIR REQUIREMENTS_PIP_LOCATION GENERATE_TEMPEST_PLUGIN_LIST
+passenv = OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE OS_STDERR_CAPTURE OS_TEST_TIMEOUT OS_TEST_LOCK_PATH TEMPEST_CONFIG TEMPEST_CONFIG_DIR http_proxy HTTP_PROXY https_proxy HTTPS_PROXY no_proxy NO_PROXY ZUUL_CACHE_DIR REQUIREMENTS_PIP_LOCATION GENERATE_TEMPEST_PLUGIN_LIST
 usedevelop = True
 install_command =
     {toxinidir}/tools/tox_install.sh {env:UPPER_CONSTRAINTS_FILE:https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/requirements/plain/upper-constraints.txt} {opts} {packages}
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ deps =
     -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
 commands =
     find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
-    ostestr {posargs}
+    stestr --test-path ./tempest/tests run {posargs}
 
 [testenv:genconfig]
 commands = oslo-config-generator --config-file tempest/cmd/config-generator.tempest.conf