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 ## Testing
 
+**Note: PRs for new resources will not be accepted without passing acceptance tests.**
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 For the Terraform resources, there are 3 levels of testing - internal, unit and acceptance tests.
 
 The 'internal' tests are run in the `github.com/chanzuckerberg/terraform-provider-snowflake/pkg/resources` package so that they can test functions that are not exported. These tests are intended to be limited to unit tests for simple functions.