My preference is to maintain the assertion count, which would mean following up the `parseHTML` with an `ok` anyway and leads to the above. We do have examples of both, though: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/e53a91909061c7a7280a274990db179b94db81b6/test/unit/css.js#L885 https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/e53a91909061c7a7280a274990db179b94db81b6/test/unit/manipulation.js#L1781