diff --git a/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/BuildFile.xml b/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/BuildFile.xml
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index 8700340758fef..0000000000000
--- a/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/BuildFile.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<environment>
-  <bin file="runtestRecoTauTagHLTProducers.cpp">
-    <flags TEST_RUNNER_ARGS=" /bin/bash RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test runtests.sh"/>
-    <use name="FWCore/Utilities"/>
-  </bin>
-
-</environment>
diff --git a/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/runtestRecoTauTagHLTProducers.cpp b/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/runtestRecoTauTagHLTProducers.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index b2991bd18ae57..0000000000000
--- a/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/runtestRecoTauTagHLTProducers.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#include "FWCore/Utilities/interface/TestHelper.h"
-
-RUNTEST()
diff --git a/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/runtests.sh b/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/runtests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 66f92b3d0a65d..0000000000000
--- a/RecoTauTag/HLTProducers/test/runtests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-function die { echo $1: status $2 ;  exit $2; }
-
-cmsRun ${LOCAL_TEST_DIR}/testL2TauTagNN.py maxEvents=10 || die 'Failure using testL2TauTagNN.py' $?