diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a8103369c1..5ca78b9b11 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ before_install:
 
 install:
   - . ./scripts/create_testenv.sh
-  - pip install coveralls travis-sphinx==2.0.0
+  - pip install coveralls
 
 env:
   - FLOATX='float32' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_examples.py --cov-append --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_distributions_random.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_variational_inference.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_shared.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_smc.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_updates.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_posteriors.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_sampling.py"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ env:
   - FLOATX='float32' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --cov-append pymc3/tests/test_variational_inference.py pymc3/tests/test_updates.py"
   - FLOATX='float64' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --cov-append --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_examples.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_distributions_random.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_variational_inference.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_shared.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_smc.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_updates.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_posteriors.py --ignore=pymc3/tests/test_sampling.py"
   - FLOATX='float64' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --cov-append pymc3/tests/test_distributions_random.py pymc3/tests/test_shared.py pymc3/tests/test_smc.py pymc3/tests/test_sampling.py"
-  - FLOATX='float64' BUILD_DOCS="true" TESTCMD="--durations=10 --cov-append pymc3/tests/test_examples.py pymc3/tests/test_posteriors.py"
+  - FLOATX='float64' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --cov-append pymc3/tests/test_examples.py pymc3/tests/test_posteriors.py"
   - FLOATX='float64' TESTCMD="--durations=10 --cov-append pymc3/tests/test_variational_inference.py pymc3/tests/test_updates.py"
 
 script:
@@ -35,5 +35,4 @@ script:
   - . ./scripts/confirm_mpl_optional.sh
 
 after_success:
-  - if [[ "$BUILD_DOCS" == "true" ]]; then travis-sphinx deploy -c "docs.pymc.io"; fi
   - coveralls
diff --git a/scripts/test.sh b/scripts/test.sh
index 05b24f5ca8..da3ffb6667 100755
--- a/scripts/test.sh
+++ b/scripts/test.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 
 set -e
 
-if [[ "$BUILD_DOCS" == "true" ]]; then
-    travis-sphinx build -n -s docs/source
-fi
-
 if [[ "$RUN_PYLINT" == "true" ]]; then
     . ./scripts/lint.sh
 fi