diff --git a/bigquery/quickstart/composer.json b/bigquery/quickstart/composer.json
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--- a/bigquery/quickstart/composer.json
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-{
-    "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.4",
-        "google/cloud-bigquery": "^1.0"
-    }
-}
diff --git a/bigquery/quickstart/phpunit.xml.dist b/bigquery/quickstart/phpunit.xml.dist
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--- a/bigquery/quickstart/phpunit.xml.dist
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
-  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
-
-  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  limitations under the License.
--->
-<phpunit bootstrap="../../testing/bootstrap.php">
-    <testsuites>
-        <testsuite name="Google BigQuery Quickstart Tests">
-            <directory>test</directory>
-        </testsuite>
-    </testsuites>
-    <logging>
-        <log type="coverage-clover" target="build/logs/clover.xml"/>
-    </logging>
-    <filter>
-        <whitelist>
-            <file>quickstart.php</file>
-            <exclude>
-              <directory>./vendor</directory>
-            </exclude>
-        </whitelist>
-    </filter>
-</phpunit>
diff --git a/bigquery/quickstart/quickstart.php b/bigquery/quickstart/quickstart.php
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--- a/bigquery/quickstart/quickstart.php
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-<?php
-/**
- * Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-# [START bigquery_quickstart]
-# Includes the autoloader for libraries installed with composer
-require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
-
-# Imports the Google Cloud client library
-use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;
-
-# Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
-$projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';
-
-# Instantiates a client
-$bigquery = new BigQueryClient([
-    'projectId' => $projectId
-]);
-
-# The name for the new dataset
-$datasetName = 'my_new_dataset';
-
-# Creates the new dataset
-$dataset = $bigquery->createDataset($datasetName);
-
-echo 'Dataset ' . $dataset->id() . ' created.';
-# [END bigquery_quickstart]
-return $dataset;
diff --git a/bigquery/quickstart/test/quickstartTest.php b/bigquery/quickstart/test/quickstartTest.php
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--- a/bigquery/quickstart/test/quickstartTest.php
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-<?php
-/**
- * Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
-
-class quickstartTest extends TestCase
-{
-    private $dataset;
-
-    public function testQuickstart()
-    {
-        if (!$projectId = getenv('GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID')) {
-            $this->markTestSkipped('GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID must be set.');
-        }
-
-        $datasetId = 'my_new_dataset_' . time();
-        $file = sys_get_temp_dir() . '/bigquery_quickstart.php';
-        $contents = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../quickstart.php');
-        $contents = str_replace(
-            ['YOUR_PROJECT_ID', 'my_new_dataset', '__DIR__'],
-            [$projectId, $datasetId, sprintf('"%s/.."', __DIR__)],
-            $contents
-        );
-        file_put_contents($file, $contents);
-
-        // Invoke quickstart.php
-        ob_start();
-        $this->dataset = include $file;
-        $output = ob_get_clean();
-
-        // Make sure it looks correct
-        $this->assertInstanceOf('Google\Cloud\BigQuery\Dataset', $this->dataset);
-        $this->assertEquals($datasetId, $this->dataset->id());
-    }
-
-    public function tearDown()
-    {
-        if ($this->dataset) {
-            $this->dataset->delete();
-        }
-    }
-}