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    <div id="ember15745" class="ember-view"><p>Unit tests are generally used to test a small piece of code and ensure that it
is doing what was intended. Unlike integration tests, they are narrow in scope
and do not require the Ember application to be running.</p>
<p>As it is the basic object type in Ember, being able to test a