diff --git a/spec/requests/api/v3/work_package_resource_spec.rb b/spec/requests/api/v3/work_package_resource_spec.rb
index 4050d80849..6faddfb400 100644
--- a/spec/requests/api/v3/work_package_resource_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/api/v3/work_package_resource_spec.rb
@@ -89,18 +89,10 @@ describe 'API v3 Work package resource', type: :request do
     end
 
     context 'user not seeing any work packages' do
+      include_context 'with non-member permissions from non_member_permissions'
       let(:current_user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
       let(:non_member_permissions) { [:view_work_packages] }
 
-      around do |example|
-        non_member = Role.non_member
-        previous_permissions = non_member.permissions
-
-        non_member.update_attribute(:permissions, non_member_permissions)
-        example.run
-        non_member.update_attribute(:permissions, previous_permissions)
-      end
-
       it 'succeeds' do
         expect(subject.status).to eql 200
       end
diff --git a/spec/support/roles.rb b/spec/support/roles.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56835e595a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/support/roles.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#-- copyright
+# OpenProject is a project management system.
+# Copyright (C) 2012-2015 the OpenProject Foundation (OPF)
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
+#
+# OpenProject is a fork of ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine. The copyright follows:
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Jean-Philippe Lang
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2013 the ChiliProject Team
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
+#
+# See doc/COPYRIGHT.rdoc for more details.
+#++
+
+#
+shared_context 'with non-member permissions from non_member_permissions' do
+  around do |example|
+    non_member = Role.non_member
+    previous_permissions = non_member.permissions
+
+    non_member.update_attribute(:permissions, non_member_permissions)
+    example.run
+    non_member.update_attribute(:permissions, previous_permissions)
+  end
+end