diff --git a/docs/html/development/architecture/anatomy.rst b/docs/html/development/architecture/anatomy.rst
index 9613460b0cb..7415358451b 100644
--- a/docs/html/development/architecture/anatomy.rst
+++ b/docs/html/development/architecture/anatomy.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ The ``README``, license, ``pyproject.toml``, ``setup.py``, and so on are in the
   * ``data/`` *[test data for running tests -- pesudo package index in it!  Lots of small packages that are invalid or are valid. Test fixtures.  Used by functional tests]*
   * ``functional/`` *[functional tests of pip’s CLI -- end-to-end, invoke pip in subprocess & check results of execution against desired result. This also is what makes test suite slow]*
   * ``lib/`` *[helpers for tests]*
-  * ``scripts/`` *[will probably die in future in a refactor -- scripts for running all of the tests, but we use pytest now. Someone could make a PR to remove this! Good first issue!]*
   * ``unit/`` *[unit tests -- fast and small and nice!]*
   * ``yaml/`` *[resolver tests! They’re written in YAML. This folder just contains .yaml files -- actual code for reading/running them is in lib/yaml.py . This is fine!]*
 
diff --git a/news/7680.removal b/news/7680.removal
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7d582156f23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/7680.removal
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove unused ``tests/scripts/test_all_pip.py`` test script and the ``tests/scripts`` folder.
diff --git a/tests/scripts/test_all_pip.py b/tests/scripts/test_all_pip.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 18c97f1c819..00000000000
--- a/tests/scripts/test_all_pip.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
-import os
-import re
-import subprocess
-import sys
-from os.path import abspath, dirname
-
-from pip._vendor.six.moves.urllib import request as urllib_request
-
-from pip._internal.utils.misc import rmtree
-
-src_folder = dirname(dirname(abspath(__file__)))
-
-if sys.platform == 'win32':
-    bin_dir = 'Scripts'
-else:
-    bin_dir = 'bin'
-
-
-def all_projects():
-    data = urllib_request.urlopen('http://pypi.org/simple/').read()
-    projects = [m.group(1) for m in re.finditer(r'<a.*?>(.+)</a>', data)]
-    return projects
-
-
-def main(args=None):
-    if args is None:
-        args = sys.argv[1:]
-    if not args:
-        print('Usage: test_all_pip.py <output-dir>')
-        sys.exit(1)
-    output = os.path.abspath(args[0])
-    if not os.path.exists(output):
-        print('Creating %s' % output)
-        os.makedirs(output)
-    pending_fn = os.path.join(output, 'pending.txt')
-    if not os.path.exists(pending_fn):
-        print('Downloading pending list')
-        projects = all_projects()
-        print('Found %s projects' % len(projects))
-        with open(pending_fn, 'w') as f:
-            for name in projects:
-                f.write(name + '\n')
-    print('Starting testing...')
-    while os.stat(pending_fn).st_size:
-        _test_packages(output, pending_fn)
-    print('Finished all pending!')
-
-
-def _test_packages(output, pending_fn):
-    package = get_last_item(pending_fn)
-    print('Testing package %s' % package)
-    dest_dir = os.path.join(output, package)
-    print('Creating virtualenv in %s' % dest_dir)
-    create_venv(dest_dir)
-    print('Uninstalling actual pip')
-    code = subprocess.check_call([
-        os.path.join(dest_dir, bin_dir, 'pip'),
-        'uninstall',
-        '-y',
-        'pip',
-    ])
-    assert not code, 'pip uninstallation failed'
-    print('Installing development pip')
-    code = subprocess.check_call(
-        [
-            os.path.join(dest_dir, bin_dir, 'python'),
-            'setup.py',
-            'install'
-        ],
-        cwd=src_folder,
-    )
-    assert not code, 'pip installation failed'
-    print('Trying installation of %s' % dest_dir)
-    code = subprocess.check_call([
-        os.path.join(dest_dir, bin_dir, 'pip'),
-        'install',
-        package,
-    ])
-    if code:
-        print('Installation of %s failed' % package)
-        print('Now checking easy_install...')
-        create_venv(dest_dir)
-        code = subprocess.check_call([
-            os.path.join(dest_dir, bin_dir, 'easy_install'),
-            package,
-        ])
-        if code:
-            print('easy_install also failed')
-            add_package(os.path.join(output, 'easy-failure.txt'), package)
-        else:
-            print('easy_install succeeded')
-            add_package(os.path.join(output, 'failure.txt'), package)
-        pop_last_item(pending_fn, package)
-    else:
-        print('Installation of %s succeeded' % package)
-        add_package(os.path.join(output, 'success.txt'), package)
-        pop_last_item(pending_fn, package)
-        rmtree(dest_dir)
-
-
-def create_venv(dest_dir):
-    if os.path.exists(dest_dir):
-        rmtree(dest_dir)
-    print('Creating virtualenv in %s' % dest_dir)
-    code = subprocess.check_call([
-        'virtualenv',
-        '--no-site-packages',
-        dest_dir,
-    ])
-    assert not code, "virtualenv failed"
-
-
-def get_last_item(fn):
-    f = open(fn, 'r')
-    lines = f.readlines()
-    f.close()
-    return lines[-1].strip()
-
-
-def pop_last_item(fn, line=None):
-    f = open(fn, 'r')
-    lines = f.readlines()
-    f.close()
-    if line:
-        assert lines[-1].strip() == line.strip()
-    lines.pop()
-    f = open(fn, 'w')
-    f.writelines(lines)
-    f.close()
-
-
-def add_package(filename, package):
-    f = open(filename, 'a')
-    f.write(package + '\n')
-    f.close()
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()