diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 2f6ea4a491..0ae7c5f2c7 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -28,4 +28,3 @@ couchdb>=0.8 # Apache-2.0
 os-testr>=0.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 astroid<1.4.0 # LGPLv2.1 # breaks pylint 1.4.4
 pylint==1.4.5 # GPLv2
-tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0