"Consolidating code is easy, pulling it apart is a lot harder." My experience is the opposite. The less code, the better. I just spent a week on refactoring UI

"Consolidating code is easy, pulling it apart is a lot harder." My experience is the opposite. The less code, the better. I just spent a week on refactoring UI automation test code where they had copied the same 30 lines of code into almost 100 places. Every time with an ID changed and some slightly different formatting. It took me a few days to figure out that these sections do the same thing so I decided to introduce a function with ID as parameter. It was a lot of work to identify all sections and then to make sure they are really equivalent. Saved us 3000 lines of code and now we can be sure that timeouts and other stuff is handled correctly everywhere. An we can respond to changes quickly. that's DRY to me. Don't copy/paste code. Introduce functions. Ideally in the simplest way. When you have functions, you declare the same behavior everywhere.