The Laws of Unit Testing
Reading this post from Michael Puleio's blog I got to this post from Michael Feathers' blog. In his post Michael Feathers doesn't state what a unit test is, but what a unit test isn't. And, sometimes, this is just enough to help a lot.
A test is not a unit test if:
It talks to the database It communicates across the network It touches the file system It can't run at the same time as any of your other unit tests You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing config files) to run it.