diff --git a/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/assertions.js b/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/assertions.js
index 48b1727172..f747c89bfa 100644
--- a/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/assertions.js
+++ b/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/assertions.js
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export { assert as strictEqual };
 export function ok(truthy, code) {
   if (!truthy) {
     throw new Error(
-      `Expected ${code ? ' ' + code : ''}to be truthy - Found \`${JSON.stringify(prettyPrintSymbol(truthy))}\``,
+      `Expected ${code ? code + ' ' : ''}to be truthy - Found \`${JSON.stringify(prettyPrintSymbol(truthy))}\``,
     );
   }
 }
diff --git a/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/compute.js b/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/compute.js
index 86f2c34edd..504453e6d1 100644
--- a/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/compute.js
+++ b/integration-tests/js-compute/fixtures/app/src/compute.js
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import { purgeSurrogateKey, vCpuTime } from 'fastly:compute';
 routes.set('/compute/get-vcpu-ms', () => {
   const cpuTime = vCpuTime();
   strictEqual(typeof cpuTime, 'number');
-  ok(cpuTime > 0);
-  ok(cpuTime < 3000);
+  // We can't assert > 0; this only claims millisecond resolution,
+  // and we hopefully spent less than 500us starting.
+  ok(cpuTime >= 0, 'cpuTime >= 0');
+  ok(cpuTime < 3000, 'cputime < 3000');
   const arr = new Array(100_000).fill(1);
   for (let j = 1; j < 100; j++) {
     for (let i = 1; i < 100_000; i++) {
@@ -14,8 +16,8 @@ routes.set('/compute/get-vcpu-ms', () => {
     }
   }
   const cpuTime2 = vCpuTime();
-  ok(cpuTime2 > cpuTime);
-  ok(cpuTime2 - cpuTime > 1);
+  ok(cpuTime2 > cpuTime, 'cpuTime2 > cpuTime');
+  ok(cpuTime2 - cpuTime > 1, 'cpuTime2 - cpuTime > 1');
   return pass('ok');
 });