diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-group-by.R b/tests/testthat/test-group-by.R
index 121725176c..043d88dd81 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-group-by.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-group-by.R
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ test_that("ungroup.rowwise_df gives a tbl_df (#936)", {
   expect_equal(res, c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"))
 })
 
-test_that(paste0("group_by handles encodings for native strings (#1507)"), {
+test_that("group_by handles encodings for native strings (#1507)", {
   local_non_utf8_encoding()
 
   special <- get_native_lang_string()