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     Stability: 2 - Stable
 
-This module is used for writing unit tests for your applications, you can
-access it with `require('assert')`.
+This module is used for writing assertion tests. You can access it with
+`require('assert')`.
 
 ## assert.fail(actual, expected, message, operator)