Ask HN: How do you separate intentional test boilerplate from real duplication?

I am maintaining an open-source project (deterministic open source duplicate-code detector) and a user asked for a feature which I don’t have a clear answer on how to implement.This seems a very hard problem to solve:-Tests repeat the same scenario. For a structural detector, this flags as repetition (duplication). However, tests are not something people want to delete from the codebases.-The repetitions from tests (on purpose) end up looking like undesired code duplication and the tools canno t…

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