I should be able to test Notifications without actually sending anything

(User Story, Investigate , Priority: Critical, Test Status: No automated tests yet , Reported By Bad Link: Thing 3y284oe not found, )

Notifications, Experiments

Summary: Not entirely clear how this should work, but it would make development much, much easier.

Really, it would be nice to have some way of saying, "I want to encapsulate all side-effects, and see what would have happened without it actually happening."

This might be related to Experiment Mode in some way? Might even be a first step in building Experiment Mode?

Original report from Eric:

I really want a test flag which would let me dry-run a _notify: not actually notifying anyone, but, displaying its parameters - especially (a) the body of the notification (b) who it would be sent to, but all of them would be good. (Those parameters in particular are apt to involve QL to generate them, which means QL bugs are a very real concern.)