diff -u b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/AggregatorTestBase.php b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/AggregatorTestBase.php
--- b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/AggregatorTestBase.php
+++ b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/AggregatorTestBase.php
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm('aggregator/sources/add', $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('The feed @name has been added.', array('@name' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), format_string('The feed !name has been added.', array('!name' => $edit['title[0][value]'])));
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a feed.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a feed.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'aggregator/sources/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a feed');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedItemTest.php b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedItemTest.php
--- b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedItemTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedItemTest.php
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm('aggregator/sources/add', $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('The feed @name has been added.', array('@name' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), format_string('The feed !name has been added.', array('!name' => $edit['title[0][value]'])));
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a feed.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a feed.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'aggregator/sources/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a feed');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedTest.php b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedTest.php
--- b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/aggregator/src/Tests/UpdateFeedTest.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
       $this->drupalPostForm('aggregator/sources/' . $feed->id() . '/configure', $edit, t('Save'));
       $this->assertText(t('The feed @name has been updated.', array('@name' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), format_string('The feed %name has been updated.', array('%name' => $edit['title[0][value]'])));
 
-      // See if the creation message contains a link to a feed.
+      // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a feed.
       $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'aggregator/sources/'));
       $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a feed');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/contact/src/Tests/ContactSitewideTest.php b/core/modules/contact/src/Tests/ContactSitewideTest.php
--- b/core/modules/contact/src/Tests/ContactSitewideTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/contact/src/Tests/ContactSitewideTest.php
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
     $this->addContactForm($id = Unicode::strtolower($this->randomMachineName($max_length)), $label = $this->randomMachineName($max_length), implode(',', array($recipients[0])), '', TRUE);
     $this->assertText(t('Contact form @label has been added.', array('@label' => $label)));
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a contact form.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a contact form.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'contact/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a contact form.');
 
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
     $this->addContactForm($id = Unicode::strtolower($this->randomMachineName(16)), $label = $this->randomMachineName(16), implode(',', array($recipients[0])), '', TRUE);
     $this->assertText(t('Contact form @label has been added.', array('@label' => $label)));
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a contact form.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a contact form.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'contact/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a contact form.');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/filter/src/Tests/FilterAdminTest.php b/core/modules/filter/src/Tests/FilterAdminTest.php
--- b/core/modules/filter/src/Tests/FilterAdminTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/filter/src/Tests/FilterAdminTest.php
@@ -296,8 +296,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm('node/add/page', $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('Basic page @title has been created.', array('@title' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), 'Filtered node created.');
 
-
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a node.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a node.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'node/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a node');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/forum/src/Tests/ForumTest.php b/core/modules/forum/src/Tests/ForumTest.php
--- b/core/modules/forum/src/Tests/ForumTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/forum/src/Tests/ForumTest.php
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
       format_string('@type was created', array('@type' => ucfirst($type)))
     );
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a term.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a term.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'term/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a term');
 
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
       $this->assertText(t('@type @title has been created.', array('@type' => $type, '@title' => $title)), 'Forum topic was created');
       $this->assertNoRaw(t('The item %title is a forum container, not a forum.', array('%title' => $forum['name'])), 'No error message was shown');
 
-      // See if the creation message contains a link to a term.
+      // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a term.
       $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'term/'));
       $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a term');
     }
diff -u b/core/modules/locale/src/Tests/LocaleContentTest.php b/core/modules/locale/src/Tests/LocaleContentTest.php
--- b/core/modules/locale/src/Tests/LocaleContentTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/locale/src/Tests/LocaleContentTest.php
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm($path, $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('@title has been updated.', array('@title' => $node_title)));
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a node.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a node.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'node/' . $node->id()));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains the link to the edited node');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/node/src/Tests/NodeCreationTest.php b/core/modules/node/src/Tests/NodeCreationTest.php
--- b/core/modules/node/src/Tests/NodeCreationTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/node/src/Tests/NodeCreationTest.php
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     // Check that the Basic page has been created.
     $this->assertText(t('!post @title has been created.', array('!post' => 'Basic page', '@title' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), 'Basic page created.');
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a node.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a node.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'node/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a node');
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
     // Confirm that the node was created.
     $this->assertText(t('!post @title has been created.', array('!post' => 'Basic page', '@title' => $edit['title[0][value]'])));
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a node.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a node.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'node/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a node');
   }
diff -u b/core/modules/shortcut/src/ShortcutForm.php b/core/modules/shortcut/src/ShortcutForm.php
--- b/core/modules/shortcut/src/ShortcutForm.php
+++ b/core/modules/shortcut/src/ShortcutForm.php
@@ -29,12 +29,10 @@
     $entity = $this->entity;
     $status = $entity->save();
     $url = $entity->getUrl();
-    /*
-     * There's an edge case where a user can have permission to
-     * 'link to any content', but has no right to access the linked page.
-     * So we check the access before showing the link
-     */
-    if ($url->access() == TRUE) {
+    // There's an edge case where a user can have permission to
+    // 'link to any content', but has no right to access the linked page. So we
+    // check the access before showing the link.
+    if ($url->access()) {
       $view_link = \Drupal::l($entity->getTitle(), $url);
     }
     else {
diff -u b/core/modules/system/src/Tests/Entity/EntityTranslationFormTest.php b/core/modules/system/src/Tests/Entity/EntityTranslationFormTest.php
--- b/core/modules/system/src/Tests/Entity/EntityTranslationFormTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/system/src/Tests/Entity/EntityTranslationFormTest.php
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm('node/add/page', $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('Basic page @title has been created.', array('@title' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), 'Basic page created.');
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a node.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a node.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'node/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a node');
 
diff -u b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/TermTest.php b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/TermTest.php
--- b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/TermTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/TermTest.php
@@ -246,9 +246,11 @@
     // Save, creating the terms.
     $this->drupalPostForm('node/add/article', $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('@type @title has been created.', array('@type' => t('Article'), '@title' => $edit['title[0][value]'])), 'The node was created successfully.');
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a node.
+
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a node.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'node/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a node');
+
     foreach ($terms as $term) {
       $this->assertText($term, 'The term was saved and appears on the node page.');
     }
diff -u b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/VocabularyPermissionsTest.php b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/VocabularyPermissionsTest.php
--- b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/VocabularyPermissionsTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/taxonomy/src/Tests/VocabularyPermissionsTest.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('Created new term @name.', array('@name' => $edit['name[0][value]'])), 'Term created successfully.');
 
-    // See if the creation message contains a link to a term.
+    // Verify that the creation message contains a link to a term.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'term/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a term');
 
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@
     $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, $edit, t('Save'));
     $this->assertText(t('Updated term @name.', array('@name' => $edit['name[0][value]'])), 'Term updated successfully.');
 
-
-    // See if the update message contains a link to a term.
+    // Verify that the update message contains a link to a term.
     $view_link = $this->xpath('//div[@class="messages"]//a[contains(@href, :href)]', array(':href' => 'term/'));
     $this->assert(isset($view_link), 'The message area contains a link to a term');