diff --git a/TESTING.rst b/TESTING.rst
index 51639c8b8..a1852dd7c 100644
--- a/TESTING.rst
+++ b/TESTING.rst
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ current tests should be passing.
 Running unit tests
 ------------------
 
-There are three mechanisms for running tests: run_tests.sh, tox,
-and nose. Before submitting a patch for review you should always
-ensure all test pass; a tox run is triggered by the jenkins gate
-executed on gerrit for each patch pushed for review.
+There are two mechanisms for running tests: tox and nose. Before
+submitting a patch for review you should always ensure all test pass;
+a tox run is triggered by the jenkins gate executed on gerrit for
+each patch pushed for review.
 
 With these mechanisms you can either run the tests in the standard
 environment or create a virtual environment to run them in.
@@ -39,15 +39,6 @@ By default after running all of the tests, any pep8 errors
 found in the tree will be reported.
 
 
-With `run_tests.sh`
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-You can use the `run_tests.sh` script in the root source directory to execute
-tests in a virtualenv::
-
-    ./run_tests.sh -V
-
-
 With `nose`
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -108,31 +99,11 @@ class separating it from the module path with a colon.
 For example, the following would run only the TestVNFMPlugin tests from
 tacker/tests/unit/vm/test_plugin.py::
 
-      $ ./run_tests.sh tacker.tests.unit.vm.test_plugin:TestVNFMPlugin
-
-or::
-
       $ ./tox tacker.tests.unit.vm.test_plugin:TestVNFMPlugin
 
-Adding more tests
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Tacker has a fast growing code base and there is plenty of areas that
-need to be covered by unit and functional tests.
-
-To get a grasp of the areas where tests are needed, you can check
-current coverage by running::
-
-    $ ./run_tests.sh -c
-
 Debugging
 ---------
 
-By default, calls to pdb.set_trace() will be ignored when tests
-are run.  For pdb statements to work, invoke run_tests as follows::
-
-    $ ./run_tests.sh -d [test module path]
-
 It's possible to debug tests in a tox environment::
 
     $ tox -e venv -- python -m testtools.run [test module path]
@@ -155,11 +126,3 @@ that the source tree be installed in the venv in editable mode::
 Editable mode ensures that changes made to the source tree are
 automatically reflected in the venv, and that such changes are not
 overwritten during the next tox run.
-
-Post-mortem debugging
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Setting OS_POST_MORTEM_DEBUG=1 in the shell environment will ensure
-that pdb.post_mortem() will be invoked on test failure::
-
-    $ OS_POST_MORTEM_DEBUG=1 ./run_tests.sh -d [test module path]
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c4a754be7..000000000
--- a/run_tests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,226 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -eu
-
-function usage {
-  echo "Usage: $0 [OPTION]..."
-  echo "Run Tacker's test suite(s)"
-  echo ""
-  echo "  -V, --virtual-env           Always use virtualenv.  Install automatically if not present"
-  echo "  -N, --no-virtual-env        Don't use virtualenv.  Run tests in local environment"
-  echo "  -s, --no-site-packages      Isolate the virtualenv from the global Python environment"
-  echo "  -r, --recreate-db           Recreate the test database (deprecated, as this is now the default)."
-  echo "  -n, --no-recreate-db        Don't recreate the test database."
-  echo "  -f, --force                 Force a clean re-build of the virtual environment. Useful when dependencies have been added."
-  echo "  -u, --update                Update the virtual environment with any newer package versions"
-  echo "  -p, --pep8                  Just run PEP8 and HACKING compliance check"
-  echo "  -P, --no-pep8               Don't run static code checks"
-  echo "  -c, --coverage              Generate coverage report"
-  echo "  -d, --debug                 Run tests with testtools instead of testr. This allows you to use the debugger."
-  echo "  -h, --help                  Print this usage message"
-  echo "  --virtual-env-path <path>   Location of the virtualenv directory"
-  echo "                               Default: \$(pwd)"
-  echo "  --virtual-env-name <name>   Name of the virtualenv directory"
-  echo "                               Default: .venv"
-  echo "  --tools-path <dir>          Location of the tools directory"
-  echo "                               Default: \$(pwd)"
-  echo ""
-  echo "Note: with no options specified, the script will try to run the tests in a virtual environment,"
-  echo "      If no virtualenv is found, the script will ask if you would like to create one.  If you "
-  echo "      prefer to run tests NOT in a virtual environment, simply pass the -N option."
-  exit
-}
-
-function process_options {
-  i=1
-  while [ $i -le $# ]; do
-    case "${!i}" in
-      -h|--help) usage;;
-      -V|--virtual-env) always_venv=1; never_venv=0;;
-      -N|--no-virtual-env) always_venv=0; never_venv=1;;
-      -s|--no-site-packages) no_site_packages=1;;
-      -r|--recreate-db) recreate_db=1;;
-      -n|--no-recreate-db) recreate_db=0;;
-      -f|--force) force=1;;
-      -u|--update) update=1;;
-      -p|--pep8) just_pep8=1;;
-      -P|--no-pep8) no_pep8=1;;
-      -c|--coverage) coverage=1;;
-      -d|--debug) debug=1;;
-      --virtual-env-path)
-        (( i++ ))
-        venv_path=${!i}
-        ;;
-      --virtual-env-name)
-        (( i++ ))
-        venv_dir=${!i}
-        ;;
-      --tools-path)
-        (( i++ ))
-        tools_path=${!i}
-        ;;
-      -*) testropts="$testropts ${!i}";;
-      *) testrargs="$testrargs ${!i}"
-    esac
-    (( i++ ))
-  done
-}
-
-tool_path=${tools_path:-$(pwd)}
-venv_path=${venv_path:-$(pwd)}
-venv_dir=${venv_name:-.venv}
-with_venv=tools/with_venv.sh
-always_venv=0
-never_venv=0
-force=0
-no_site_packages=0
-installvenvopts=
-testrargs=
-testropts=
-wrapper=""
-just_pep8=0
-no_pep8=0
-coverage=0
-debug=0
-recreate_db=1
-update=0
-
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-LANGUAGE=en_US:en
-LC_ALL=C
-
-process_options $@
-# Make our paths available to other scripts we call
-export venv_path
-export venv_dir
-export venv_name
-export tools_dir
-export venv=${venv_path}/${venv_dir}
-
-if [ $no_site_packages -eq 1 ]; then
-  installvenvopts="--no-site-packages"
-fi
-
-
-function run_tests {
-  # Cleanup *pyc
-  ${wrapper} find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
-
-  if [ $debug -eq 1 ]; then
-    if [ "$testropts" = "" ] && [ "$testrargs" = "" ]; then
-      # Default to running all tests if specific test is not
-      # provided.
-      testrargs="discover ./tacker/tests"
-    fi
-    ${wrapper} python -m testtools.run $testropts $testrargs
-
-    # Short circuit because all of the testr and coverage stuff
-    # below does not make sense when running testtools.run for
-    # debugging purposes.
-    return $?
-  fi
-
-  if [ $coverage -eq 1 ]; then
-    TESTRTESTS="$TESTRTESTS --coverage"
-  else
-    TESTRTESTS="$TESTRTESTS --slowest"
-  fi
-
-  # Just run the test suites in current environment
-  set +e
-  testrargs=`echo "$testrargs" | sed -e's/^\s*\(.*\)\s*$/\1/'`
-  TESTRTESTS="$TESTRTESTS --testr-args='--subunit $testropts $testrargs'"
-  OS_TEST_PATH=`echo $testrargs|grep -o 'tacker\.tests[^[:space:]:]*\+'|tr . /`
-  if [ -d "$OS_TEST_PATH" ]; then
-      wrapper="OS_TEST_PATH=$OS_TEST_PATH $wrapper"
-  elif [ -d "$(dirname $OS_TEST_PATH)" ]; then
-      wrapper="OS_TEST_PATH=$(dirname $OS_TEST_PATH) $wrapper"
-  fi
-  echo "Running \`${wrapper} $TESTRTESTS\`"
-  bash -c "${wrapper} $TESTRTESTS | ${wrapper} subunit2pyunit"
-  RESULT=$?
-  set -e
-
-  copy_subunit_log
-
-  if [ $coverage -eq 1 ]; then
-    echo "Generating coverage report in covhtml/"
-    # Don't compute coverage for common code, which is tested elsewhere
-    ${wrapper} coverage combine
-    ${wrapper} coverage html --include='tacker/*' --omit='tacker/openstack/common/*' -d covhtml -i
-  fi
-
-  return $RESULT
-}
-
-function copy_subunit_log {
-  LOGNAME=`cat .testrepository/next-stream`
-  LOGNAME=$(($LOGNAME - 1))
-  LOGNAME=".testrepository/${LOGNAME}"
-  cp $LOGNAME subunit.log
-}
-
-function run_pep8 {
-  echo "Running flake8 ..."
-
-  ${wrapper} flake8
-}
-
-
-TESTRTESTS="python -m tacker.openstack.common.lockutils python setup.py testr"
-
-if [ $never_venv -eq 0 ]
-then
-  # Remove the virtual environment if --force used
-  if [ $force -eq 1 ]; then
-    echo "Cleaning virtualenv..."
-    rm -rf ${venv}
-  fi
-  if [ $update -eq 1 ]; then
-      echo "Updating virtualenv..."
-      python tools/install_venv.py $installvenvopts
-  fi
-  if [ -e ${venv} ]; then
-    wrapper="${with_venv}"
-  else
-    if [ $always_venv -eq 1 ]; then
-      # Automatically install the virtualenv
-      python tools/install_venv.py $installvenvopts
-      wrapper="${with_venv}"
-    else
-      echo -e "No virtual environment found...create one? (Y/n) \c"
-      read use_ve
-      if [ "x$use_ve" = "xY" -o "x$use_ve" = "x" -o "x$use_ve" = "xy" ]; then
-        # Install the virtualenv and run the test suite in it
-        python tools/install_venv.py $installvenvopts
-        wrapper=${with_venv}
-      fi
-    fi
-  fi
-fi
-
-# Delete old coverage data from previous runs
-if [ $coverage -eq 1 ]; then
-    ${wrapper} coverage erase
-fi
-
-if [ $just_pep8 -eq 1 ]; then
-    run_pep8
-    exit
-fi
-
-if [ $recreate_db -eq 1 ]; then
-    rm -f tests.sqlite
-fi
-
-run_tests
-
-# NOTE(sirp): we only want to run pep8 when we're running the full-test suite,
-# not when we're running tests individually. To handle this, we need to
-# distinguish between options (testropts), which begin with a '-', and
-# arguments (testrargs).
-if [ -z "$testrargs" ]; then
-  if [ $no_pep8 -eq 0 ]; then
-    run_pep8
-  fi
-fi