I guess the disconnect is that I don't think of the state of the database as inputs, per se, but more the environment the test is running in. I wouldn't for ins

I guess the disconnect is that I don't think of the state of the database as inputs, per se, but more the environment the test is running in. I wouldn't for instance necessarily need to set my clock to a fixed time (provided I'm not specifically testing code where that is relevant), or wipe out the hard drive that the code is running on for a test.