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+The 'serverless' and 'classic' directories contain full tests: they
+have full output of materialized template, perform "bundle validate"
+and in the future will perform deploy/summary/run.
+
+Other directories (serverless-auto-\*) contain short tests: they only do
+"bundle init" and then check that the output matches 'serverless' or 'classic' exactly.