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-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.elasticsearch.test.test;
-
-import com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.annotations.Repeat;
-import org.elasticsearch.test.ElasticsearchIntegrationTest;
-import org.elasticsearch.test.TestCluster;
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
-
-/**
- * This test ensures that the cluster initializion for GLOBAL scope is not influencing
- * the tests random sequence due to initializtion using the same random instance.
- */
-public class GlobalScopeClusterTests extends ElasticsearchIntegrationTest {
-    private static int ITER = 0;
-    private static long[] SEQUENCE = new long[100];
-    private static Long CLUSTER_SEED = null;
-
-    @Test
-    @Repeat(iterations = 10, useConstantSeed = true)
-    public void testReproducible() throws IOException {
-        if (ITER++ == 0) {
-            CLUSTER_SEED = cluster().seed();
-            for (int i = 0; i < SEQUENCE.length; i++) {
-                SEQUENCE[i] = randomLong();
-            }
-        } else {
-            assertEquals(CLUSTER_SEED, new Long(cluster().seed()));
-            for (int i = 0; i < SEQUENCE.length; i++) {
-                assertThat(SEQUENCE[i], equalTo(randomLong()));
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected TestCluster buildTestCluster(Scope scope, long seed) throws IOException {
-        // produce some randomness
-        int iters = between(1, 100);
-        for (int i = 0; i < iters; i++) {
-            randomLong();
-        }
-        return super.buildTestCluster(scope, seed);
-    }
-}