diff --git a/tests/spiders.py b/tests/spiders.py
index 5075a795b..be3580e5a 100644
--- a/tests/spiders.py
+++ b/tests/spiders.py
@@ -319,32 +319,6 @@ class ErrorSpider(FollowAllSpider):
             self.raise_exception()
 
 
-class BrokenYieldSeedsSpider(FollowAllSpider):
-    fail_before_yield = False
-    fail_yielding = False
-
-    def __init__(self, *a, **kw):
-        super().__init__(*a, **kw)
-        self.seedsseen = []
-
-    async def yield_seeds(self):
-        if self.fail_before_yield:
-            1 / 0
-
-        for s in range(100):
-            qargs = {"total": 10, "seed": s}
-            url = self.mockserver.url(f"/follow?{urlencode(qargs, doseq=True)}")
-            yield Request(url, meta={"seed": s})
-            if self.fail_yielding:
-                2 / 0
-
-        assert self.seedsseen, "All seeds consumed before any download happened"
-
-    def parse(self, response):
-        self.seedsseen.append(response.meta.get("seed"))
-        yield from super().parse(response)
-
-
 class YieldSeedsItemSpider(FollowAllSpider):
     async def yield_seeds(self):
         yield {"name": "test item"}
diff --git a/tests/test_crawl.py b/tests/test_crawl.py
index a2b66ac20..31c5618ad 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawl.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawl.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ from tests.spiders import (
     AsyncDefDeferredMaybeWrappedSpider,
     AsyncDefDeferredWrappedSpider,
     AsyncDefSpider,
-    BrokenYieldSeedsSpider,
     BytesReceivedCallbackSpider,
     BytesReceivedErrbackSpider,
     CrawlSpiderWithAsyncCallback,
@@ -162,28 +161,6 @@ class TestCrawl(TestCase):
             )
         self._assert_retried(log)
 
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def test_yield_seeds_bug_before_yield(self):
-        with LogCapture("scrapy", level=logging.ERROR) as log:
-            crawler = get_crawler(BrokenYieldSeedsSpider)
-            yield crawler.crawl(fail_before_yield=1, mockserver=self.mockserver)
-
-        assert len(log.records) == 1
-        record = log.records[0]
-        assert record.exc_info is not None
-        assert record.exc_info[0] is ZeroDivisionError
-
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def test_yield_seeds_bug_yielding(self):
-        with LogCapture("scrapy", level=logging.ERROR) as log:
-            crawler = get_crawler(BrokenYieldSeedsSpider)
-            yield crawler.crawl(fail_yielding=1, mockserver=self.mockserver)
-
-        assert len(log.records) == 1
-        record = log.records[0]
-        assert record.exc_info is not None
-        assert record.exc_info[0] is ZeroDivisionError
-
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_yield_seeds_items(self):
         with LogCapture("scrapy", level=logging.ERROR) as log:
@@ -205,15 +182,6 @@ class TestCrawl(TestCase):
 
         assert len(log.records) == 1
 
-    @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def test_yield_seeds_laziness(self):
-        settings = {"CONCURRENT_REQUESTS": 1, "SEEDING_POLICY": "lazy"}
-        crawler = get_crawler(BrokenYieldSeedsSpider, settings)
-        yield crawler.crawl(mockserver=self.mockserver)
-        assert crawler.spider.seedsseen.index(None) < crawler.spider.seedsseen.index(
-            99
-        ), crawler.spider.seedsseen
-
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_yield_seeds_dupes(self):
         settings = {"CONCURRENT_REQUESTS": 1}