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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF 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.
+
+
+# Properties for JUnit tests
+
+queue.standalone=true
+
+usergrid.cluster_name=Test Cluster
+
+usergrid.cluster.hostname=localhost
+
+# Comma-separated list of regions to be considered
+usergrid.cluster.region.list=us-east
+
+# The regions of this local instance of Usergrid
+usergrid.cluster.region.local=us-east
+
+# Comma-separated lists of cluster seeds each with format {region}:{hostname}
+usergrid.cluster.seeds=us-east:localhost
+
+# Port used for cluster communications.
+usergrid.cluster.port=3545
+
+queue.inmemory.cache=true
+
+queue.num.actors=50
+queue.sender.num.actors=100
+queue.writer.num.actors=100
+
+queue.send.timeout.seconds=5
+queue.get.timeout.seconds=5
+
+# set shard size and times low for testing purposes
+queue.shard.max.size=10
+queue.shard.allocation.check.frequency.millis=1000
+queue.shard.allocation.advance.time.millis=200
+
+# set low for testing purposes
+queue.shard.counter.max-in-memory=50
+queue.message.counter.max-in-memory=50
+
+queue.long.polling.time.millis=2000
+
+cassandra.hosts=localhost
+
+cassandra.keyspace.application=qakka_test_application
+
+cassandra.keyspace.queue-message=qakka_test_queue_messages
+
+cassandra.keyspace-drop-and-create=true
+
+#cassandra.connections=30
+cassandra.timeout.pool=20000
