diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index f2b800a..e8791f8 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,30 @@
 - Clean up test data at the completion of each test
 - Use configuration files for values that will vary by environment
 
+Supported OpenStack Components
+------------------------------
+
+Tempest's :ref:`library` and :ref:`plugin interface <tempest_plugin>` can be
+leveraged to support integration testing for virtually any OpenStack component.
+
+However, Tempest only offers **in-tree** integration testing coverage for the
+following components:
+
+* Cinder
+* Glance
+* Keystone
+* Neutron
+* Nova
+* Swift
+
+Historically, Tempest offered in-tree testing for other components as well, but
+since the introduction of the `External Plugin Interface`_, Tempest's in-tree
+testing scope has been limited to the projects above. Integration tests for
+projects not included above should go into one of the
+`relevant plugin projects`_.
+
+.. _External Plugin Interface: https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/qa-specs/specs/tempest/implemented/tempest-external-plugin-interface.html
+.. _relevant plugin projects: https://docs.openstack.org/tempest/latest/plugin-registry.html#detected-plugins
 
 Exception Handling
 ------------------
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/bug-1799883-6ea95fc64f70c9ef.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/bug-1799883-6ea95fc64f70c9ef.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..630908f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/bug-1799883-6ea95fc64f70c9ef.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Fixed bug #1799883. ``tempest workspace register`` and ``tempest workspace move`` CLI
+    will now validate the value of the ``--path`` CLI argument and raise an exception if
+    it is None or empty string. Earlier both CLI actions were accepting None or empty path
+    which was confusing.
diff --git a/tempest/api/network/test_dhcp_ipv6.py b/tempest/api/network/test_dhcp_ipv6.py
index 0730d58..399954c 100644
--- a/tempest/api/network/test_dhcp_ipv6.py
+++ b/tempest/api/network/test_dhcp_ipv6.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
             real_ip, eui_ip = self._get_ips_from_subnet(**kwargs)
             self._clean_network()
             self.assertEqual(eui_ip, real_ip,
-                             ('Real port IP %s shall be equal to EUI-64 %s'
+                             ('Real port IP %s shall be equal to EUI-64 %s '
                               'when ipv6_ra_mode=%s,ipv6_address_mode=%s') % (
                                  real_ip, eui_ip,
                                  ra_mode if ra_mode else "Off",
diff --git a/tempest/cmd/workspace.py b/tempest/cmd/workspace.py
index d276bde..d0c4b28 100644
--- a/tempest/cmd/workspace.py
+++ b/tempest/cmd/workspace.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
     @lockutils.synchronized('workspaces', external=True)
     def move_workspace(self, name, path):
         self._populate()
-        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(path))
+        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(path)) if path else path
         self._name_exists(name)
         self._validate_path(path)
         self.workspaces[name] = path
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
 
     @lockutils.synchronized('workspaces', external=True)
     def remove_workspace_directory(self, workspace_path):
+        self._validate_path(workspace_path)
         shutil.rmtree(workspace_path)
 
     @lockutils.synchronized('workspaces', external=True)
@@ -136,6 +137,10 @@
             sys.exit(1)
 
     def _validate_path(self, path):
+        if not path:
+            print("None or empty path is specified for workspace."
+                  " Please specify correct workspace path.")
+            sys.exit(1)
         if not os.path.exists(path):
             print("Path does not exist.")
             sys.exit(1)
@@ -144,7 +149,7 @@
     def register_new_workspace(self, name, path, init=False):
         """Adds the new workspace and writes out the new workspace config"""
         self._populate()
-        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(path))
+        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(path)) if path else path
         # This only happens when register is called from outside of init
         if not init:
             self._validate_path(path)
diff --git a/tempest/config.py b/tempest/config.py
index 6c6ff58..18c9d9d 100644
--- a/tempest/config.py
+++ b/tempest/config.py
@@ -170,11 +170,22 @@
     cfg.IntOpt('user_lockout_failure_attempts',
                default=2,
                help="The number of unsuccessful login attempts the user is "
-                    "allowed before having the account locked."),
+                    "allowed before having the account locked. This only "
+                    "takes effect when identity-feature-enabled."
+                    "security_compliance is set to 'True'. For more details, "
+                    "refer to keystone config options keystone.conf:"
+                    "security_compliance.lockout_failure_attempts. "
+                    "This feature is disabled by default in keystone."),
     cfg.IntOpt('user_lockout_duration',
                default=5,
                help="The number of seconds a user account will remain "
-                    "locked."),
+                    "locked. This only takes "
+                    "effect when identity-feature-enabled.security_compliance "
+                    "is set to 'True'. For more details, refer to "
+                    "keystone config options "
+                    "keystone.conf:security_compliance.lockout_duration. "
+                    "Setting this option will have no effect unless you also "
+                    "set identity.user_lockout_failure_attempts."),
     cfg.IntOpt('user_unique_last_password_count',
                default=2,
                help="The number of passwords for a user that must be unique "
diff --git a/tempest/tests/cmd/test_workspace.py b/tempest/tests/cmd/test_workspace.py
index a256368..65481de 100644
--- a/tempest/tests/cmd/test_workspace.py
+++ b/tempest/tests/cmd/test_workspace.py
@@ -140,6 +140,17 @@
         self.assertEqual(
             self.workspace_manager.get_workspace(self.name), new_path)
 
+    def test_workspace_manager_move_no_workspace_path(self):
+        new_path = ""
+        with patch('sys.stdout', new_callable=StringIO) as mock_stdout:
+            ex = self.assertRaises(SystemExit,
+                                   self.workspace_manager.move_workspace,
+                                   self.name, new_path)
+        self.assertEqual(1, ex.code)
+        self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(),
+                         "None or empty path is specified for workspace."
+                         " Please specify correct workspace path.\n")
+
     def test_workspace_manager_remove_entry(self):
         self.workspace_manager.remove_workspace_entry(self.name)
         self.assertIsNone(self.workspace_manager.get_workspace(self.name))
@@ -149,6 +160,18 @@
         self.workspace_manager.remove_workspace_directory(path)
         self.assertIsNone(self.workspace_manager.get_workspace(self.name))
 
+    def test_workspace_manager_remove_directory_no_path(self):
+        no_path = ""
+        with patch('sys.stdout', new_callable=StringIO) as mock_stdout:
+            ex = self.assertRaises(SystemExit,
+                                   self.workspace_manager.
+                                   remove_workspace_directory,
+                                   no_path)
+        self.assertEqual(1, ex.code)
+        self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(),
+                         "None or empty path is specified for workspace."
+                         " Please specify correct workspace path.\n")
+
     def test_path_expansion(self):
         name = data_utils.rand_uuid()
         path = os.path.join("~", name)
@@ -207,3 +230,15 @@
         self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(),
                          "None or empty name is specified."
                          " Please specify correct name for workspace.\n")
+
+    def test_register_new_workspace_no_path(self):
+        no_path = ""
+        with patch('sys.stdout', new_callable=StringIO) as mock_stdout:
+            ex = self.assertRaises(SystemExit,
+                                   self.workspace_manager.
+                                   register_new_workspace,
+                                   self.name, no_path)
+        self.assertEqual(1, ex.code)
+        self.assertEqual(mock_stdout.getvalue(),
+                         "None or empty path is specified for workspace."
+                         " Please specify correct workspace path.\n")
diff --git a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
index 4eb78fb..3772774 100644
--- a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
+++ b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
 # Gerrit prepends 4 garbage octets to the JSON, in order to counter
 # cross-site scripting attacks.  Therefore we must discard it so the
 # json library won't choke.
-projects = sorted(filter(is_in_openstack_namespace, json.loads(r.read()[4:])))
+content = r.read().decode('utf-8')[4:]
+projects = sorted(filter(is_in_openstack_namespace, json.loads(content)))
 
 # Retrieve projects having no deb, puppet, ui or spec namespace as those
 # namespaces do not contains tempest plugins.
diff --git a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh
index b27b23a..111c9ce 100755
--- a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh
+++ b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.sh
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
 set -ex
 
 (
-declare -A plugins
-
 if [[ -r doc/source/data/tempest-plugins-registry.header ]]; then
     cat doc/source/data/tempest-plugins-registry.header
 fi