Thinking back to the Airbus flight demos of the A-300 FBW prototype at Paris and Farnborough in the late 1970's or early 80's, when Bernard Ziegler (or was it Pierre Baud?) made a great display of the 'impossibility' of stalling the machine, by holding the stick fully aft as it waffled down the flightline at minimum IAS 'bobbing' like a porpoise, how much in the way of actual stalls did they do on the A-320/340/330 during the development/certification process?
Did Airbus evaluate the handling characteristics in fully developed stalls (presumably in Alternate Law) to confirm the fully developed stalls in all configurations were actually compliant with JAR/FAR25, with or without stall protection? Or, would they have been permitted to by-pass some, or all of this time consuming requirement, as it could be considered a redundant exercise with a functioning stall barrier?