diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 075f857b..e0d494bf 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ mock>=2.0 # BSD
 nose # LGPL
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0
-tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 osprofiler>=1.4.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 openstackdocstheme>=1.11.0 # Apache-2.0