diff --git a/integration-tests/bats/bats.bats b/integration-tests/bats/bats.bats
index ef477e2feb..ad5a5d500d 100644
--- a/integration-tests/bats/bats.bats
+++ b/integration-tests/bats/bats.bats
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bats
 
-
-@test "bats: all assertions work on Mac" {
-    run pwd
-    echo "PWD: $output"
-
+# Assert that all bash test constructs will correctly fail on Mac OS's older bash version
+# by ending them with '|| false'.
+# https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/49
+@test "bats: all bash test constructs end with '|| false' {
     run grep -E ' *\]\][[:space:]]*$' -n *.bats
     # grep returns 0 if matches are found, 1 if matches are NOT found, and 2 if no input files were found
     echo -e "Incorrect bash test constructs: \n$output"
-    [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
-    [[ "$output" =~ "No tables to export." ]]
-    [[ "$output" =~ "another" ]]
+    [ $status -eq 1 ]
+    [[ $output =~ "No tables to export." ]]
+    [[ $output =~ "another" ]]
 }
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