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While the actions were certainly dishonest, I have misgivings about the actually illegalality of it.

Certainly the court disagrees with me, but in my mind it ran to standards within the requirements of the test, it meets the requirements. Seems like the test is flawed to me.

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That's not how the law works; intent matters. It's not enough for the tests to pass or for some proof to hold. These things are artifacts of some underlying human objectives.

Was the intent though not to meet the requirements? There are lots of cases where things meet the word of the law but just and it’s fine; word of the law matters as well as intent.

If I understand correctly (and I might be wrong), the intent was to pass the test, despite failing in the real world conditions that the test is supposed to control for.

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