diff --git a/phpunit.xml.dist b/phpunit.xml.dist
index 0fd4388b4..edd8c53a6 100644
--- a/phpunit.xml.dist
+++ b/phpunit.xml.dist
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
          colors="true"
          beStrictAboutOutputDuringTests="true"
          beStrictAboutTodoAnnotatedTests="true"
-         bootstrap="./tests/Doctrine/Tests/TestInit.php"
 >
     <testsuites>
         <testsuite name="Doctrine Common Test Suite">
diff --git a/tests/Doctrine/Tests/TestInit.php b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/TestInit.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 993bc5aac..000000000
--- a/tests/Doctrine/Tests/TestInit.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/*
- * This file bootstraps the test environment.
- */
-
-namespace Doctrine\Tests;
-
-use function error_reporting;
-use function is_file;
-use function is_readable;
-use function spl_autoload_register;
-use function strpos;
-use function strtr;
-
-use const E_ALL;
-use const E_STRICT;
-
-error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
-
-// register silently failing autoloader
-spl_autoload_register(static function ($class) {
-    if (strpos($class, 'Doctrine\Tests\\') !== 0) {
-        return;
-    }
-
-    $path = __DIR__ . '/../../' . strtr($class, '\\', '/') . '.php';
-    if (is_file($path) && is_readable($path)) {
-        require_once $path;
-
-        return true;
-    }
-});
-
-require_once __DIR__ . '/../../../vendor/autoload.php';