diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 91375e83..5fa89005 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ WebTest>=2.0 # MIT
 tempest-lib>=0.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 bandit>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
-tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 pylint==1.4.5 # GPLv2
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0