diff --git a/nova/tests/rpc/test_carrot.py b/nova/tests/rpc/test_carrot.py
index 653b4908..23986304 100644
--- a/nova/tests/rpc/test_carrot.py
+++ b/nova/tests/rpc/test_carrot.py
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ class RpcCarrotTestCase(common._BaseRpcTestCase):
         self.rpc = impl_carrot
         super(RpcCarrotTestCase, self).setUp(supports_timeouts=False)
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(RpcCarrotTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_connectionpool_single(self):
         """Test that ConnectionPool recycles a single connection."""
         conn1 = self.rpc.ConnectionPool.get()
diff --git a/nova/tests/rpc/test_fake.py b/nova/tests/rpc/test_fake.py
index 5b8d32d0..72333c13 100644
--- a/nova/tests/rpc/test_fake.py
+++ b/nova/tests/rpc/test_fake.py
@@ -31,6 +31,3 @@ class RpcFakeTestCase(common._BaseRpcTestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.rpc = impl_fake
         super(RpcFakeTestCase, self).setUp()
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(RpcFakeTestCase, self).tearDown()
diff --git a/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu_ssl.py b/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu_ssl.py
index 246968b1..2a10835c 100644
--- a/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu_ssl.py
+++ b/nova/tests/rpc/test_kombu_ssl.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ SSL_KEYFILE = "/tmp/keyfile.blah.blah"
 class RpcKombuSslTestCase(test.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
-        test.TestCase.setUp(self)
+        super(RpcKombuSslTestCase, self).setUp()
         self.flags(kombu_ssl_keyfile=SSL_KEYFILE,
                    kombu_ssl_ca_certs=SSL_CA_CERT,
                    kombu_ssl_certfile=SSL_CERT,
diff --git a/nova/tests/scheduler/test_least_cost.py b/nova/tests/scheduler/test_least_cost.py
index 7c09e4e6..df4e1324 100644
--- a/nova/tests/scheduler/test_least_cost.py
+++ b/nova/tests/scheduler/test_least_cost.py
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@ class LeastCostTestCase(test.TestCase):
         self.flags(reserved_host_disk_mb=0, reserved_host_memory_mb=0)
         self.host_manager = fakes.FakeHostManager()
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(LeastCostTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def _get_all_hosts(self):
         ctxt = context.get_admin_context()
         fakes.mox_host_manager_db_calls(self.mox, ctxt)
@@ -93,13 +90,6 @@ class LeastCostTestCase(test.TestCase):
 
 
 class TestWeightedHost(test.TestCase):
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        pass
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        pass
-
     def test_dict_conversion_without_host_state(self):
         host = least_cost.WeightedHost('someweight')
         expected = {'weight': 'someweight'}
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_SolidFireSanISCSIDriver.py b/nova/tests/test_SolidFireSanISCSIDriver.py
index 1814e09a..a856172b 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_SolidFireSanISCSIDriver.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_SolidFireSanISCSIDriver.py
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ class SolidFireVolumeTestCase(test.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         super(SolidFireVolumeTestCase, self).setUp()
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        pass
-
     def fake_issue_api_request(obj, method, params):
         if method is 'GetClusterInfo':
             LOG.info('Called Fake GetClusterInfo...')
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_compute.py b/nova/tests/test_compute.py
index 66142070..69ba48ac 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_compute.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_compute.py
@@ -3297,9 +3297,6 @@ class ComputeAPIAggrTestCase(test.TestCase):
         self.stubs.Set(rpc, 'call', fake_rpc_method)
         self.stubs.Set(rpc, 'cast', fake_rpc_method)
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(ComputeAPIAggrTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_create_invalid_availability_zone(self):
         """Ensure InvalidAggregateAction is raised with wrong avail_zone."""
         self.assertRaises(exception.InvalidAggregateAction,
@@ -3515,9 +3512,6 @@ class ComputeAggrTestCase(BaseTestCase):
                   'availability_zone': 'test_zone', }
         self.aggr = db.aggregate_create(self.context, values)
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(ComputeAggrTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_add_aggregate_host(self):
         def fake_driver_add_to_aggregate(context, aggregate, host):
             fake_driver_add_to_aggregate.called = True
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_consoleauth.py b/nova/tests/test_consoleauth.py
index cf74eef1..6370a4ff 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_consoleauth.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_consoleauth.py
@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ class ConsoleauthTestCase(test.TestCase):
         self.manager = utils.import_object(FLAGS.consoleauth_manager)
         self.context = context.get_admin_context()
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(ConsoleauthTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_tokens_expire(self):
         """Test that tokens expire correctly."""
         token = 'mytok'
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_db_api.py b/nova/tests/test_db_api.py
index 7236f616..985de8e2 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_db_api.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_db_api.py
@@ -320,9 +320,6 @@ class AggregateDBApiTestCase(test.TestCase):
         self.project_id = 'fake'
         self.context = context.RequestContext(self.user_id, self.project_id)
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(AggregateDBApiTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_aggregate_create(self):
         """Ensure aggregate can be created with no metadata."""
         result = _create_aggregate(metadata=None)
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_nova_rootwrap.py b/nova/tests/test_nova_rootwrap.py
index 6905bfdc..bb2ceeb6 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_nova_rootwrap.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_nova_rootwrap.py
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ class RootwrapTestCase(test.TestCase):
             filters.CommandFilter("/bin/cat", "root")  # Keep this one last
             ]
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(RootwrapTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_RegExpFilter_match(self):
         usercmd = ["ls", "/root"]
         filtermatch = wrapper.match_filter(self.filters, usercmd)
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_signer.py b/nova/tests/test_signer.py
index 80573e4a..3fcac7f2 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_signer.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_signer.py
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ class SignerTestCase(test.TestCase):
         super(SignerTestCase, self).setUp()
         self.signer = signer.Signer('uV3F3YluFJax1cknvbcGwgjvx4QpvB+leU8dUj2o')
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(SignerTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     # S3 Authorization Signing input & output examples taken from here:
     # http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/
     def test_s3_authorization_get(self):
diff --git a/nova/tests/test_xenapi.py b/nova/tests/test_xenapi.py
index 32d3f830..6f8ad189 100644
--- a/nova/tests/test_xenapi.py
+++ b/nova/tests/test_xenapi.py
@@ -816,9 +816,6 @@ class XenAPIDiffieHellmanTestCase(test.TestCase):
     def test_encrypt_really_long_message(self):
         self._test_encryption(''.join(['abcd' for i in xrange(1024)]))
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(XenAPIDiffieHellmanTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
 
 class XenAPIMigrateInstance(test.TestCase):
     """Unit test for verifying migration-related actions."""