Tbh, I have no clue what the standard procedure for this is. I'd probably provide them with a back up and have them use a WAMP stack or similar to test their updates. If they don't know how to use WAMP or a similar non-public-facing server, they aren't worth their salt, anyway (wherever they want to develop is fine, just not live on your site).
It's typical for web administrators that are programmers to only work on a backup copy of their site and NEVER go live with an update until it's 100% working - and because of that, asking them to work non-live for security reasons shouldn't be a big deal. You'd hate for shoddy coding to go through to a live environment, right?
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I also cannot troubleshoot code more than two years old - I legit don't remember it.
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