> A unit test is a discrete, runnable program that asserts some state about your program to be true I would say "Observe the state of an execution stack". Toma

> A unit test is a discrete, runnable program that asserts some state about your program to be true I would say "Observe the state of an execution stack". Tomato tomato. > which has a very specific meaning Unit testing is a methodology, not a specific thing. How you observe it, be it through a pass fail indicator or a "This looks right", is immaterial. Splitting hairs on the output methodology does not change the utility.