diff --git a/core/tests/Variable/TestVariableController.cpp b/core/tests/Variable/TestVariableController.cpp
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+#include <QObject>
+#include <QtTest>
+
+#include <Data/IDataProvider.h>
+#include <Time/TimeController.h>
+#include <Variable/Variable.h>
+#include <Variable/VariableController.h>
+
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace {
+
+/// Provider used for the tests
+class TestProvider : public IDataProvider {
+    void requestDataLoading(QUuid acqIdentifier, const DataProviderParameters &parameters) override
+    {
+        // Does nothing
+    }
+
+    void requestDataAborting(QUuid acqIdentifier) override
+    {
+        // Does nothing
+    }
+};
+
+/// Generates a time controller for the tests
+std::unique_ptr<TimeController> defaultTimeController()
+{
+    auto timeController = std::make_unique<TimeController>();
+
+    QDateTime start{QDate{2017, 01, 01}, QTime{0, 0, 0, 0}};
+    QDateTime end{QDate{2017, 01, 02}, QTime{0, 0, 0, 0}};
+    timeController->onTimeToUpdate(
+        SqpRange{DateUtils::secondsSinceEpoch(start), DateUtils::secondsSinceEpoch(end)});
+
+    return timeController;
+}
+
+} // namespace
+
+class TestVariableController : public QObject {
+    Q_OBJECT
+
+private slots:
+    /// Test removes variable from controller
+    void testDeleteVariable();
+};
+
+void TestVariableController::testDeleteVariable()
+{
+    // Creates variable controller
+    auto timeController = defaultTimeController();
+    VariableController variableController{};
+    variableController.setTimeController(timeController.get());
+
+    // Creates a variable from the controller
+    auto variable
+        = variableController.createVariable("variable", {}, std::make_shared<TestProvider>());
+
+    qDebug() << QString::number(variable.use_count());
+
+    // Removes the variable from the controller
+    variableController.deleteVariable(variable);
+
+    // Verifies that the variable has been deleted: this implies that the number of shared_ptr
+    // objects referring to the variable is 1 (the reference of this scope). Otherwise, the deletion
+    // is considered invalid since the variable is still referenced in the controller
+    QVERIFY(variable.use_count() == 1);
+}
+
+QTEST_MAIN(TestVariableController)
+#include "TestVariableController.moc"