--- a/cubicweb/test/unittest_utils.py	Fri Mar 10 14:07:15 2017 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/test/unittest_utils.py	Fri Mar 10 16:14:05 2017 +0100
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 from cubicweb import Binary, Unauthorized
 from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC
 from cubicweb.utils import (make_uid, UStringIO, RepeatList, HTMLHead,
-                            QueryCache, parse_repo_uri)
+                            QueryCache)
 from cubicweb.entity import Entity
 
 try:
@@ -59,18 +59,6 @@
             d.add(uid)
 
 
-class TestParseRepoUri(TestCase):
-
-    def test_parse_repo_uri(self):
-        self.assertEqual(('inmemory', None, 'myapp'),
-                         parse_repo_uri('myapp'))
-        self.assertEqual(('inmemory', None, 'myapp'),
-                         parse_repo_uri('inmemory://myapp'))
-        with self.assertRaises(NotImplementedError):
-            parse_repo_uri('foo://bar')
-
-
-
 class TestQueryCache(TestCase):
     def test_querycache(self):
         c = QueryCache(ceiling=20)