Based on the discussion on http://groups.drupal.org/node/7731, it appears that putting comments for inherited test methods like getInfo(), setUp() and tearDown() is generally confusing. Rather than treating them like hook implementations or having a generic comment being repeated, it would be cleaner to not have comments at all. This opinion is shared by many people including dww, moshe and drewish.

Here's a patch based on a regular expression to remove all comments from getInfo(), setUp() and tearDown() functions in .test files.

For the reference, here's the regexp:
In *.test files, replace 

([^\n]*\/\*\*\n.*\n\s*\*\/\n)(\s*)function (getInfo|setUp|tearDown)

with

$2function $3
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test_comment_cleanup.patch50.49 KBfloretan

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch failed testing.

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dww
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FWIW, I totally support this change. ;)

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naxoc commented
Component: tests » ajax system
Status: Needs work » Closed (fixed)

It seems that the generic comments have been removed. This produces nothing now:
grep -r '([^\n]*\/\*\*\n.*\n\s*\*\/\n)(\s*)function (getInfo|setUp|tearDown)' .

Closing the issue :)