diff --git a/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js b/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js
index 4d096b1941865f..9dd603bfdc3327 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js
@@ -2,34 +2,33 @@
 // Original test written by Jakub Lekstan <kuebzky@gmail.com>
 const common = require('../common');
 
-require('../common');
 // FIXME add sunos support
 if (!(common.isFreeBSD || common.isOSX || common.isLinux)) {
   console.log(`1..0 # Skipped: Unsupported platform [${process.platform}]`);
   return;
 }
 
-var assert = require('assert');
-var exec = require('child_process').exec;
-var path = require('path');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const exec = require('child_process').exec;
+const path = require('path');
 
 // The title shouldn't be too long; libuv's uv_set_process_title() out of
 // security considerations no longer overwrites envp, only argv, so the
 // maximum title length is possibly quite short.
-var title = 'testme';
+let title = 'testme';
 
-assert.notEqual(process.title, title);
+assert.notStrictEqual(process.title, title);
 process.title = title;
-assert.equal(process.title, title);
+assert.strictEqual(process.title, title);
 
-exec('ps -p ' + process.pid + ' -o args=', function(error, stdout, stderr) {
-  assert.equal(error, null);
-  assert.equal(stderr, '');
+exec(`ps -p ${process.pid} -o args=`, function callback(error, stdout, stderr) {
+  assert.ifError(error);
+  assert.strictEqual(stderr, '');
 
   // freebsd always add ' (procname)' to the process title
   if (common.isFreeBSD)
     title += ` (${path.basename(process.execPath)})`;
 
   // omitting trailing whitespace and \n
-  assert.equal(stdout.replace(/\s+$/, ''), title);
+  assert.strictEqual(stdout.replace(/\s+$/, ''), title);
 });