What the tests found once they could run

The conformance suite reads the product documentation and checks the claims against a running system. It had been unable to run, which meant nobody knew which of its three hundred assertions still held. It runs again, and the first complete pass failed twenty-one of them.

Four turned out to be checks that had quietly stopped testing anything: six about what may be withdrawn while something stands on it were calling a route that does not exist and getting “no route” rather than an answer; five about crediting an invoice were reading a field renamed earlier the same day, so they were comparing nothing to nothing; one named “deleting a module holding records is refused until it is confirmed” was using the helper that confirms, so it could never see the refusal.

The rest were real.