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Notification Flows

Verifying the messages a product sends: a per-run recipient, programmatic capture of mail, text or push, one-time links, arrival timing. Sign-up and reset journeys stall here.

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A password-reset email can be requested repeatedly; how do you pin down how many of its links stay usable?

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Request the reset several times, keep every link, then attempt them oldest first without completing the flow and count the acceptances. That count is the product's outstanding-link policy, and the case should assert it as an expected number.

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A case fails when an activation email misses its arrival deadline. How do you tell a slow delivery from a lost one?

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At the deadline both look identical: nothing has arrived either way. Separate them with evidence outside the assertion — the record that a send was accepted, a correlation value carried in the email, and continued observation after the case fails.

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