diff --git a/tempest/cmd/run_stress.py b/tempest/cmd/run_stress.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 6fe3928..9c8552f
--- a/tempest/cmd/run_stress.py
+++ b/tempest/cmd/run_stress.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     # unittest in python 2.6 does not contain loader, so uses unittest2
     from unittest2 import loader
 import traceback
+import warnings
 
 from cliff import command
 from oslo_log import log as logging
@@ -74,7 +75,17 @@
 
 class TempestRunStress(command.Command):
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def display_deprecation_warning():
+        warnings.simplefilter('once', category=DeprecationWarning)
+        warnings.warn(
+            'Stress tests are deprecated and will be removed from Tempest '
+            'in the Newton release.',
+            DeprecationWarning)
+        warnings.resetwarnings()
+
     def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        self.display_deprecation_warning()
         pa = super(TempestRunStress, self).get_parser(prog_name)
         pa = add_arguments(pa)
         return pa
@@ -146,6 +157,7 @@
 
 
 def main():
+    TempestRunStress.display_deprecation_warning()
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Run stress tests')
     pa = add_arguments(parser)
     ns = pa.parse_args()
diff --git a/tempest/stress/__init__.py b/tempest/stress/__init__.py
index 987a023..e69de29 100644
--- a/tempest/stress/__init__.py
+++ b/tempest/stress/__init__.py
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2016 NEC Corporation.  All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-import warnings
-
-warnings.simplefilter('once', category=DeprecationWarning)
-warnings.warn(
-    'Stress tests are deprecated and will be removed from Tempest '
-    'in the Newton release.',
-    DeprecationWarning)
-warnings.resetwarnings()