diff --git a/test/common/index.js b/test/common/index.js
index 90df0a4e698cb7..6a1b6509d12a6f 100644
--- a/test/common/index.js
+++ b/test/common/index.js
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ const noop = () => {};
 // Using a `.` prefixed name, which is the convention for "hidden" on POSIX,
 // gets tools to ignore it by default or by simple rules, especially eslint.
 let tmpDirName = '.tmp';
-// PORT should match the definition in test/testpy/__init__.py.
+
 exports.PORT = +process.env.NODE_COMMON_PORT || 12346;
+
 exports.isWindows = process.platform === 'win32';
 exports.isWOW64 = exports.isWindows &&
                   (process.env.PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 !== undefined);
@@ -162,7 +163,6 @@ exports.refreshTmpDir = function() {
 };
 
 if (process.env.TEST_THREAD_ID) {
-  exports.PORT += process.env.TEST_THREAD_ID * 100;
   tmpDirName += `.${process.env.TEST_THREAD_ID}`;
 }
 exports.tmpDir = path.join(testRoot, tmpDirName);
diff --git a/test/testpy/__init__.py b/test/testpy/__init__.py
index f113c1253a477f..455d57f4d9157a 100644
--- a/test/testpy/__init__.py
+++ b/test/testpy/__init__.py
@@ -61,10 +61,7 @@ def GetCommand(self):
     source = open(self.file).read()
     flags_match = FLAGS_PATTERN.search(source)
     if flags_match:
-      # PORT should match the definition in test/common/index.js.
-      env = { 'PORT': int(os.getenv('NODE_COMMON_PORT', '12346')) }
-      env['PORT'] += self.thread_id * 100
-      flag = flags_match.group(1).strip().format(**env).split()
+      flag = flags_match.group(1).strip().split()
       # The following block reads config.gypi to extract the v8_enable_inspector
       # value. This is done to check if the inspector is disabled in which case
       # the '--inspect' flag cannot be passed to the node process as it will