diff --git a/doc/install.rst b/doc/install.rst
index c8c3e97c7..32d7729e4 100644
--- a/doc/install.rst
+++ b/doc/install.rst
@@ -84,19 +84,3 @@ The examples in the :ref:`gallery` also use:
 * `ensaio <http://www.fatiando.org/ensaio/>`__ for downloading sample datasets
 * `pygmt <https://www.pygmt.org/>`__ for plotting maps
 * `pyproj <https://jswhit.github.io/pyproj/>`__ for cartographic projections
-
-
-Testing your install
---------------------
-
-We ship a full test suite with the package.
-To run the tests, you'll need to install some extra dependencies first:
-
-* `pytest <https://docs.pytest.org/>`__
-* `boule <http://www.fatiando.org/boule/>`__
-
-After that, you can test your installation by running the following inside
-a Python interpreter::
-
-    import harmonica
-    harmonica.test()
diff --git a/harmonica/__init__.py b/harmonica/__init__.py
index 4902d8f23..c61fe3f64 100644
--- a/harmonica/__init__.py
+++ b/harmonica/__init__.py
@@ -34,51 +34,3 @@
 
 # Append a leading "v" to the generated version by setuptools_scm
 __version__ = f"v{__version__}"
-
-
-def test(doctest=True, verbose=True, coverage=False, figures=False):
-    """
-    Run the test suite.
-
-    Uses `py.test <http://pytest.org/>`__ to discover and run the tests.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-
-    doctest : bool
-        If ``True``, will run the doctests as well (code examples that start
-        with a ``>>>`` in the docs).
-    verbose : bool
-        If ``True``, will print extra information during the test run.
-    coverage : bool
-        If ``True``, will run test coverage analysis on the code as well.
-        Requires ``pytest-cov``.
-    figures : bool
-        If ``True``, will test generated figures against saved baseline
-        figures.  Requires ``pytest-mpl`` and ``matplotlib``.
-
-    Raises
-    ------
-
-    AssertionError
-        If pytest returns a non-zero error code indicating that some tests have
-        failed.
-
-    """
-    import pytest
-
-    package = __name__
-    args = []
-    if verbose:
-        args.append("-vv")
-    if coverage:
-        args.append("--cov={}".format(package))
-        args.append("--cov-report=term-missing")
-    if doctest:
-        args.append("--doctest-modules")
-    if figures:
-        args.append("--mpl")
-    args.append("--pyargs")
-    args.append(package)
-    status = pytest.main(args)
-    assert status == 0, "Some tests have failed."