diff --git a/lower-constraints.txt b/lower-constraints.txt
index 5dec0100d..6a4a4154d 100644
--- a/lower-constraints.txt
+++ b/lower-constraints.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ keystoneauth1==3.9.0
 keystonemiddleware==4.18.0
 linecache2==1.0.0
 Mako==1.0.7
-MarkupSafe==1.0
+MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 mccabe==0.2.1
 microversion-parse==0.2.1
 mock==2.0.0
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ pep8==1.5.7
 pluggy==0.6.0
 ply==3.11
 prettytable==0.7.1
-psycopg2==2.7
+psycopg2==2.8
 py==1.5.2
 pycadf==2.7.0
-pyflakes==0.8.1
-PyMySQL==0.7.6
+pyflakes==2.1.1
+PyMySQL==0.8.0
 pyparsing==2.2.0
 pytest==3.4.2
 python-dateutil==2.5.3
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ python-keystoneclient==3.15.0
 python-mimeparse==1.6.0
 python-subunit==1.2.0
 pytz==2018.3
-PyYAML==3.12
+PyYAML==3.13
 repoze.lru==0.7
 requests==2.14.2
 requestsexceptions==1.4.0
diff --git a/placement/handler.py b/placement/handler.py
index ef280558c..7a7ebbe6a 100644
--- a/placement/handler.py
+++ b/placement/handler.py
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class PlacementHandler(object):
                 raise webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest(
                     'content-type header required when content-length > 0',
                     json_formatter=util.json_error_formatter)
-        except ValueError as exc:
+        except ValueError:
             raise webob.exc.HTTPBadRequest(
                 'content-length header must be an integer',
                 json_formatter=util.json_error_formatter)
diff --git a/placement/handlers/allocation.py b/placement/handlers/allocation.py
index 9be824044..bf29eafee 100644
--- a/placement/handlers/allocation.py
+++ b/placement/handlers/allocation.py
@@ -471,28 +471,28 @@ def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):
 @wsgi_wrapper.PlacementWsgify  # noqa
 @microversion.version_handler('1.8', '1.11')
 @util.require_content('application/json')
-def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):
+def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):  # noqa
     return _set_allocations_for_consumer(req, schema.ALLOCATION_SCHEMA_V1_8)
 
 
 @wsgi_wrapper.PlacementWsgify  # noqa
 @microversion.version_handler('1.12', '1.27')
 @util.require_content('application/json')
-def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):
+def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):  # noqa
     return _set_allocations_for_consumer(req, schema.ALLOCATION_SCHEMA_V1_12)
 
 
 @wsgi_wrapper.PlacementWsgify  # noqa
 @microversion.version_handler('1.28', '1.33')
 @util.require_content('application/json')
-def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):
+def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):  # noqa
     return _set_allocations_for_consumer(req, schema.ALLOCATION_SCHEMA_V1_28)
 
 
 @wsgi_wrapper.PlacementWsgify  # noqa
 @microversion.version_handler('1.34')
 @util.require_content('application/json')
-def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):
+def set_allocations_for_consumer(req):  # noqa
     return _set_allocations_for_consumer(req, schema.ALLOCATION_SCHEMA_V1_34)
 
 
diff --git a/placement/handlers/resource_class.py b/placement/handlers/resource_class.py
index b0504799a..156393c60 100644
--- a/placement/handlers/resource_class.py
+++ b/placement/handlers/resource_class.py
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def update_resource_class(req):
 
 @wsgi_wrapper.PlacementWsgify  # noqa
 @microversion.version_handler('1.7')
-def update_resource_class(req):
+def update_resource_class(req):  # noqa
     """PUT to create or validate the existence of single resource class.
 
     On a successful create return 201. Return 204 if the class already
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 9babfe64e..890d52e85 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -3,14 +3,19 @@
 # process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
 
 hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
+# remove this pyflakes from here once you bump the
+# hacking to 3.2.0 or above. hacking 3.2.0 takes
+# care of pyflakes version compatibilty.
+pyflakes>=2.1.1
+
 coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 # NOTE(tetsuro): Local testing on osx may have problems to install packages,
 # psycopg2 and PYMySQL. You can workaround them using sys_platform qualifier.
 # See the https://review.opendev.org/#/c/671249/ for details. However, we
 # don't use it here to keep the consistency with global requirements.
-psycopg2>=2.7 # LGPL/ZPL
-PyMySQL>=0.7.6 # MIT License
+psycopg2>=2.8 # LGPL/ZPL
+PyMySQL>=0.8.0 # MIT License
 oslotest>=3.4.0 # Apache-2.0
 stestr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 testtools>=2.2.0 # MIT
diff --git a/tools/test-setup.sh b/tools/test-setup.sh
index 00c765e73..5b986ced3 100755
--- a/tools/test-setup.sh
+++ b/tools/test-setup.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ sudo -H mysqladmin -u root password $DB_ROOT_PW
 sudo -H mysql -u root -p$DB_ROOT_PW -h localhost -e "
     DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='';
     FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
-    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.*
-        TO '$DB_USER'@'%' identified by '$DB_PW' WITH GRANT OPTION;"
+    CREATE USER '$DB_USER'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '$DB_PW';
+    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO '$DB_USER'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;"
 
 # Now create our database.
 mysql -u $DB_USER -p$DB_PW -h 127.0.0.1 -e "