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Ticket change [a8098329b6] - New ticket [4b072de97c] provide means to specify desire to rerun a test/step N times on fail. by bjbarcla on 2015-10-05 17:19:39.
D 2015-10-05T23:19:39.202
J foundin 1.6024
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J mimetype text/x-fossil-plain
J private_contact 463e166cbd557fda643f629dd4886619ce461689
J severity Important
J status Open
J title provide\smeans\sto\sspecify\sdesire\sto\srerun\sa\stest/step\sN\stimes\son\sfail
J type Feature_Request
K 4b072de97c2b80e392d5e7e182fdf6d2f1d8a1dc
U bjbarcla
Z 638b3ed149f55b26375dc7680c0d181c