No, I definitely am not making that assumption. With a bad response, but a good response code, 1 test would fail and the other would succeed, no matter the ord

No, I definitely am not making that assumption. With a bad response, but a good response code, 1 test would fail and the other would succeed, no matter the order. I just don't think that that valid response code is a useful test on its own. It's much better with both assertions in the same test, unless you have some reason to think that response code failure would signify something special on its own.