Is duplicated code more tolerable in unit tests?

Question

I ruined several unit tests some time ago when I went through and refactored them to make them more DRY--the intent of each test was no longer clear. It seems there is a tr

Answer 1

Ideally, unit tests shouldn't change much once they are written so I would lean towards readability.

Having unit tests be as discrete as possible also helps to keep the tests focused on the specific functionality that they are targeting.

With that said, I do tend to try and reuse certain pieces of code that I wind up using over and over, such as setup code that is exactly the same across a set of tests.