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018
019package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification;
020
021/**
022 * Tagging a test as 'large', means that the test class has the following characteristics:
023 * <ul>
024 *  <li>it can executed in an isolated JVM (Tests can however be executed in different JVM on the
025 *  same  machine simultaneously so be careful two concurrent tests end up fighting over ports
026 *  or other singular resources).</li>
027 *  <li>ideally, the whole large test-suite/class, no matter how many or how few test methods it
028 *  has, will run in last less than three minutes</li>
029 *  <li>No large test can take longer than ten minutes; it will be killed. See 'Integeration Tests'
030 *  if you need to run tests longer than this.</li>
031 * </ul>
032 *
033 * @see SmallTests
034 * @see MediumTests
035 * @see IntegrationTests
036 */
037public interface LargeTests {
038}