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 ### Concrete Adapter Testing
 
-Before marking your pull request `Ready for Review`, please use an integration test workflow in each of the following repos to confirm that your feature ad or bug (1) achieves the desired behavior (2) does not disrupt other concrete adapters:
+At the appropriate stage of development or review, please use an integration test workflow in each of the following repos against your branch.
+
+Use these to confirm that your feature add or bug fix (1) achieves the desired behavior (2) does not disrupt other concrete adapters:
 * [ ] Postgres
 * [ ] Snowflake
 * [ ] Spark
 * [ ] Redshift
 * [ ] Bigquery
 
-Please link each CI workflow in this checklist here or in a separate PR comment.
+Please link to each CI invocation workflow in this checklist here or in a separate PR comment.
+
+*Note*: Before hitting merge, best practice is to test against your PR's latest SHA.
 
 ### Checklist