diff --git a/tests/src/testVariableMapper.cpp b/tests/src/testVariableMapper.cpp
index 0f079e4b94a9de4ad20b335b08c521a1ec87390e..4e2bfaf1dd4e54b6294f256ab32aed97eb9b0b19 100644
--- a/tests/src/testVariableMapper.cpp
+++ b/tests/src/testVariableMapper.cpp
@@ -120,19 +120,6 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( testEvaluateBool ){
   BOOST_CHECK( VariableMapper::evaluateBool("1"));
 }
 
-BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( testRename ){
-  testXmlParsing("variableTreeXml/rename.xml", { {"/A/b/do",{"/A/b/do","DIRECT","LOLO"}},
-                                                 {"/DIRECT/INT",{"/DIRECT/INT","DIRECT","TEMP"}}
-                                               } );
-}
-
-BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( testImportLocation ){
-  testXmlParsing("variableTreeXml/importLocation.xml", { {"/A/a/di",  {"/A/a/di","B","a.di"}},
-                                                         {"/A/a/do",  {"/A/a/do","B","a.do"}},
-                                                         {"/A/b",     {"/A/b","B","b"}}
-                                                       });
-}
-
 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( testImportAll ){
   std::map< std::string, AutoPropertyDescription > propertyMap(
                                                   { {"/A/a/di",  {"/A/a/di", "A","a.di"}},
diff --git a/tests/variableTreeXml/importLocation.xml b/tests/variableTreeXml/importLocation.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 931d590332f95671af12926f5ca698c60ad31875..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/variableTreeXml/importLocation.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<device_server xmlns="https://github.com/ChimeraTK/ControlSystemAdapter-DoocsAdapter">
-  <location name="B">
-    <import>/A</import>
-  </location>
-</device_server>
diff --git a/tests/variableTreeXml/rename.xml b/tests/variableTreeXml/rename.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a1826b88e6e6dfaa166aee5e1f134aa1129aff66..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/variableTreeXml/rename.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<device_server xmlns="https://github.com/ChimeraTK/ControlSystemAdapter-DoocsAdapter">
-  <location name="DIRECT">
-    <property source="/A/b/do" name="LOLO"/>
-    <property source="INT" name="TEMP"/>
-  </location>
-</device_server>