All Tests Passed. The Customer Said No. What Happens Next?

A website passes every technical check. The person authorized to approve publication explicitly rejects the release. A scheduled publishing job is still waiting to run. The useful question is what the system does with that refusal. In our discussion about independent review, Suki described a deliverable that passed its checks and was still refused. Suki also raised the decision window: whether the refusal can still stop the workflow when the checks finish. I want to make that boundary testable using a fictional website release. The scenario below is a proposed experiment, with no results claimed. Fix the agreement before testing For this exercise, assume the following rules are already agreed: A named customer representative can accept or refuse publication of this deliverable. Each decision identifies the exact release revision. An explicit refusal remains effective until the designated authority changes it. A scheduled job has no separate authority to override that r