> Based on the testing performed before the initial deployment of the Template Type (on March 05, 2024), trust in the checks performed in the Content Validator, and previous successful IPC Template Instance deployments, these instances were deployed into production.
I don't read it as _bypassing tests_. They have tested the interpreter (`template type`) when it was first released, and they have _validated_ the new template instance (via `content validator`) and assumed this is enough, because it was enough in the past. None of the steps in the usual process were bypassed, and everything was done by the (their) book.
But it looks to me there's no integration test in the process at all. They're effectively unit testing the interpreter (template type), unit testing (validating) the "code" (template instance), but their testing strategy never actually runs the code on the interpreter (or, executes the template instance against the template type).
You can't bypass the tests if you don't have them? <insert meme here>
They don't even bother to do the most simple smoke test ever of running their software on a vanilla configuration and remind me again because I have trouble understanding what we're exactly trying to argue here.
