diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 667285e83..642a2077c 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-dateutil>=2.4.2 # BSD
-coverage>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
+coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 lxml!=3.7.0,>=2.3 # BSD
 networkx>=1.10 # BSD
 python-ceilometerclient>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0