diff --git a/tests/unit/plugins/modules/conftest.py b/tests/unit/plugins/modules/conftest.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a7d1e047..00000000
--- a/tests/unit/plugins/modules/conftest.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project
-# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
-
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-import json
-
-import pytest
-
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
-from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def patch_ansible_module(request, mocker):
-    if isinstance(request.param, string_types):
-        args = request.param
-    elif isinstance(request.param, MutableMapping):
-        if 'ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS' not in request.param:
-            request.param = {'ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS': request.param}
-        if '_ansible_remote_tmp' not in request.param['ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS']:
-            request.param['ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS']['_ansible_remote_tmp'] = '/tmp'
-        if '_ansible_keep_remote_files' not in request.param['ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS']:
-            request.param['ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS']['_ansible_keep_remote_files'] = False
-        args = json.dumps(request.param)
-    else:
-        raise Exception('Malformed data to the patch_ansible_module pytest fixture')
-
-    mocker.patch('ansible.module_utils.basic._ANSIBLE_ARGS', to_bytes(args))