Merge branch 'stable-2.13'

* stable-2.13:
  Disable IT tests
  Refactor validateNewProject to reduce complexity
  Extract duplicated string into a constant

Commit "Disable IT tests" is reverted in this merge, IT tests are
working on this branch.

Change-Id: I7ac70cfc8e846e7ddaf0e1c237ec3f0481e9383f