diff --git a/tests/state.tests/errors.json b/tests/state.tests/errors.json
index 63076f171..12833042b 100644
--- a/tests/state.tests/errors.json
+++ b/tests/state.tests/errors.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+//
+// This file contains an intentionally invalid status message, intended
+// to make sure that the validator is catching the necessary errors.
+// This is NOT an example of how to report errors :-/.
+//
 {
-  "version": 2,
+  "version": 1,
   "timestamp": "2018-08-26T21:39:29.364Z",
   "id": "monkey_brains",
   "system": {
diff --git a/tests/state.tests/errors.out b/tests/state.tests/errors.out
index a9a6aaacb..4a694b508 100644
--- a/tests/state.tests/errors.out
+++ b/tests/state.tests/errors.out
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-Starting major version 2
+6 schema violations found
+  instance type (string) does not match any allowed primitive type (allowed: ["object"])
+  object has missing required properties (["hardware","last_config","operational","serial_no","software"])
+  object instance has properties which are not allowed by the schema: ["cov_increment","deadband","high_limit","instance_number","low_limit","object_type","rapt","resolution"]
+  object instance has properties which are not allowed by the schema: ["device_id","device_status","fling","object_name","system_status"]
+  object instance has properties which are not allowed by the schema: ["id","status"]