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by Izkata 846 days ago
Congrats, you understand what "unit test" was originally supposed to refer to. This is not what it's commonly meant to most people for years. The common meaning is "test every individual function in isolation".

I think this came about because of people copying the surface appearance of examples (syntactic units, functions) and not understanding what the example was trying to show (semantic units), then this simplification got repeated over and over until the original meaning was lost.