On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 04:14 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> This is why I am interested in
> modelling the environment a little more explicitily, e.g., one could
> rightfully argue that even unit tests should contain a decent amount of
> tests about assumptions in the environment.

Absolutely.

Even the most simple tests make assumptions about the universe they 
operate upon and need to validate they can proceed.  For example, a 
simple test that reads a log file for contents must check the file path 
and that the file exists as a preamble to real work.

  - Steve