Test Smell: Bloated Construction

We must pass an InputStream to a Search object through its constructor. Our test builds an InputStream in two places. The first construction requires three statements:

iloveyouboss/test-4/test/util/SearchTest.java
 
String​ pageContent = ​"There are certain queer times and occasions "
 
+ ​"in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man "
 
+ ​"takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, "
 
+ ​"though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more "
 
+ ​"than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but "
 
+ ​"his own."​;
 
byte​​[]​ bytes = pageContent.getBytes();
 
ByteArrayInputStream​ stream = ​new​ ​ByteArrayInputStream​(bytes);

As in our earlier example, where you introduced ...

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