Unit Testing without Assertions

Question

Occasionally I come accross a unit test that doesn\'t Assert anything. The particular example I came across this morning was testing that a log file got written to when a co

Answer 1

In general, I see this occuring in integration testing, just the fact that something succeeded to completion is good enough. In this case Im cool with that.

I guess if I saw it over and over again in unit tests I would be curious as to how useful the tests really were.

EDIT: In the example given by the OP, there is some testable outcome (logfile result), so assuming that if no error was thrown that it worked is lazy.