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While integration tests running on Jenkins have timeouts that are set with an adequate buffer (4500 secs), tests that are invoked locally via python -m pytest ... may encounter timeout failures. This is because the timeout property defined in our pytest.ini file is set to 600 secs, which may not be enough time for a particular integration test. To get around this, either change the value of timeout to a higher number, or add a pytest decorator such as `@pytest.mark.timeout(1200)` above timeout decorator above the function(s) inside your pytest class.
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