diff --git a/pkg/util/steps/condition_test.go b/pkg/util/steps/condition_test.go
index f0209cc322e..1476beb1e1e 100644
--- a/pkg/util/steps/condition_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/steps/condition_test.go
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ func (n *teststruct) hiveClusterInstallationComplete(context.Context) (bool, err
 }
 
 func TestEnrichConditionTimeoutError(t *testing.T) {
+	// When stringifying a method on a struct, golang adds -fm -- this is not
+	// useful to us, so using a struct instance here will verify that it is not
+	// present when matching the timeout error strings
 	s := &teststruct{}
 
 	for _, tt := range []struct {
diff --git a/pkg/util/steps/runner.go b/pkg/util/steps/runner.go
index 06894226c51..30f4ee315ba 100644
--- a/pkg/util/steps/runner.go
+++ b/pkg/util/steps/runner.go
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ import (
 	msgraph_errors "github.com/Azure/ARO-RP/pkg/util/graph/graphsdk/models/odataerrors"
 )
 
-// FriendlyName returns a "friendly" stringified name of the given func.
+// FriendlyName returns a "friendly" stringified name of the given func. This
+// consists of removing the ARO base package name (so it produces pkg/foobar
+// instead of github.com/Azure/ARO-RP/pkg/foobar) and removing the -fm suffix
+// from Golang struct methods.
 func FriendlyName(f interface{}) string {
 	return strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimSuffix(runtime.FuncForPC(reflect.ValueOf(f).Pointer()).Name(), "-fm"), "github.com/Azure/ARO-RP/")
 }