diff --git a/tempest/testboto.py b/tempest/testboto.py
index 09ac950..29ac3ca 100644
--- a/tempest/testboto.py
+++ b/tempest/testboto.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 from boto.s3.bucket import Bucket
 from boto.s3.key import Key
 import nose
+import testresources
 import unittest2 as unittest
 
 from tempest.exceptions import TearDownException
@@ -122,8 +123,12 @@
     return string + ")"
 
 
-class BotoTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+class BotoTestCase(unittest.TestCase,
+                   testresources.ResourcedTestCase):
     """Recommended to use as base class for boto related test."""
+
+    resources = [('boto_init', tempest.tests.boto.generic_setup_package())]
+
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
         # The trash contains cleanup functions and paramaters in tuples
diff --git a/tempest/tests/boto/__init__.py b/tempest/tests/boto/__init__.py
index ec51b18..6d5149e 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/boto/__init__.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/boto/__init__.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 EC2_CAN_CONNECT_ERROR = "Unknown Error"
 
 
-def setup_package():
+def generic_setup_package():
     global A_I_IMAGES_READY
     global S3_CAN_CONNECT_ERROR
     global EC2_CAN_CONNECT_ERROR
diff --git a/tempest/tests/compute/__init__.py b/tempest/tests/compute/__init__.py
index 190cb5f..a00ec77 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/compute/__init__.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/compute/__init__.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
 
 # All compute tests -- single setup function
-def setup_package():
+def generic_setup_package():
     LOG.debug("Entering tempest.tests.compute.setup_package")
 
     global MULTI_USER, DISK_CONFIG_ENABLED, FLAVOR_EXTRA_DATA_ENABLED
diff --git a/tempest/tests/compute/base.py b/tempest/tests/compute/base.py
index ae7c5ab..3f3b3e8 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/compute/base.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/compute/base.py
@@ -19,12 +19,14 @@
 import time
 
 import nose
+import testresources
 import unittest2 as unittest
 
 from tempest import clients
 from tempest.common.utils.data_utils import rand_name
 from tempest import config
 from tempest import exceptions
+from tempest.tests import compute
 
 __all__ = ['BaseComputeTest', 'BaseComputeTestJSON', 'BaseComputeTestXML',
            'BaseComputeAdminTestJSON', 'BaseComputeAdminTestXML']
@@ -32,10 +34,13 @@
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-class BaseCompTest(unittest.TestCase):
+class BaseCompTest(unittest.TestCase,
+                   testresources.ResourcedTestCase):
 
     """Base test case class for all Compute API tests."""
 
+    resources = [('compute_init', compute.generic_setup_package())]
+
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
         cls.config = config.TempestConfig()
diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 061eff6..fcf1690 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 python-keystoneclient>=0.2.0
 python-novaclient>=2.10.0
 python-quantumclient>=2.1
+testresources