diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index b0a95811..83f583ea 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ python-subunit>=0.0.18
 testrepository>=0.0.18
 testscenarios>=0.4
 testtools>=1.4.0
-oslotest>=1.7.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslotest>=1.9.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 # when we can require tox>= 1.4, this can go into tox.ini:
 #  [testenv:cover]