diff --git a/lower-constraints.txt b/lower-constraints.txt
index 063f1cca6f..bb9438a905 100644
--- a/lower-constraints.txt
+++ b/lower-constraints.txt
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ sqlalchemy-migrate==0.11.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.0.10
 sqlparse==0.2.4
 statsd==3.2.2
-stestr==2.0.0
+stestr==1.0.0
 stevedore==1.20.0
 Tempita==0.5.2
 tenacity==4.9.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 7a2716f431..80ff780353 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Babel!=2.4.0,>=2.3.4 # BSD
 PyMySQL>=0.7.6 # MIT License
 iso8601>=0.1.11 # MIT
 oslotest>=3.2.0 # Apache-2.0
-stestr # Apache-2.0
+stestr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 psycopg2>=2.6.2 # LGPL/ZPL
 testtools>=2.2.0 # MIT
 testresources>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD