Don't know what the testing protocol should be. I used to shoot my carry gun as carried with no prep and put one or two mags through it. Helps that for a lot of that I had a case of gold dots. Now, I shoot my autoloader carry ammo a few times a year. The revolver? Well, stuff has been in there awhile. Like so long I have two types of ammo in it because if I shot one round I replaced it with whatever else I had. So far it has always worked. The only factory center-fire ammo I ever had issue with was one I caused, Cor-bon .380, took it whitewater rafting which turned into swimming. The spare mag that drained and dried out faster was fine, the one in the gun was 50% misfire. So much for the whole modern ammo basically waterproof gunboard wisdom.