Should every software patch require a model-server test?
No. Verification should match the changed behavior. A documentation-only edit may need no runtime exercise, while scheduler, loading or streaming changes deserve checks that start the relevant service and send representative requests. The goal is to cover plausible failure paths without making every change unnecessarily expensive.
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