"nothing more than repeatable artifacts of whatever I was trying to do to verify the code I was writing was working" I really like this way of looking at things

"nothing more than repeatable artifacts of whatever I was trying to do to verify the code I was writing was working" I really like this way of looking at things, and think I might adopt it myself. It's kind of a nice way of saying "test the interface", but more like "test the interface of the code exercised by the primary consumer of the interface".