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@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ run it using Gradle:
 gradle run
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-or to attach a remote debugger, run it as:
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-gradle run --debug-jvm
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 === Test case filtering.
 
 - `tests.class` is a class-filtering shell-like glob pattern,