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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.
+
+name: Test Verification Loop
+
+on:
+  # run workflow manually to run custom test configurations
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      
+      command:
+        description: "Test ant command"
+        required: true
+        default: "-Dtest-unit-sys-prop.ignore.random.failures=true -f java/api.java test"
+        type: string
+        
+      iterations:
+        description: "Number of Iterations (note: 60min timeout)"
+        required: true
+        default: "10"
+        type: choice
+        options:
+          - "1"
+          - "10"
+          - "25"
+          - "100"
+        
+      jdk_vendor:
+        description: "JDK vendor to use"
+        required: true
+        default: "temurin"
+        type: choice
+        options:
+          - "corretto"
+          - "dragonwell"
+          - "graalvm"
+          - "graalvm-community"
+          - "jetbrains"
+          - "kona"
+          - "liberica"
+          - "liberica-nik"
+          - "microsoft"
+          - "oracle"
+          - "oracle-openjdk"
+          - "redhat"
+          - "sapmachine"
+          - "semeru"
+          - "temurin"
+          - "zulu"
+
+      jdk_version:
+        description: "JDK version to use"
+        required: true
+        default: "25"
+        type: string
+        
+      os_runner:
+        description: "OS Runner"
+        required: true
+        default: "ubuntu-latest"
+        type: choice
+        options:
+          - "ubuntu-latest"
+          - "macos-latest"
+          - "windows-latest"
+          - "ubuntu-26.04-arm"
+          - "windows-11-arm"
+          
+      stop_on_failure:
+        description: "Stop on Failure? (note: job will appear green if disabled -> check the steps)"
+        required: true
+        default: true
+        type: boolean
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+# cancel other workflow run in the same head-base group if it exists
+concurrency: 
+  group: dep-checker-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}-${{ github.base_ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash
+
+jobs:
+
+  verification-loop:
+    name: Loop ${{ inputs.iterations }}x on ${{ inputs.os_runner }}, ${{ inputs.jdk_vendor }} ${{ inputs.jdk_version }}
+    runs-on: ${{ inputs.os_runner }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Checkout ${{ github.ref }} ( ${{ github.sha }} )
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          submodules: false
+          show-progress: false
+
+      - name: Set up ${{ inputs.jdk_vendor }} ${{ inputs.jdk_version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v6
+        with:
+          java-version: ${{ inputs.jdk_version }}
+          distribution: ${{ inputs.jdk_vendor }}
+          problem-matcher: false
+
+      - name: Restoring dependencies from cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v6
+        with:
+          path: ~/.hgexternalcache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('*/external/binaries-list', '*/*/external/binaries-list') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-
+
+      - name: Build NetBeans
+        run: ant -quiet -Dcluster.config=full build-nozip
+
+      - name: Setup Xvfb
+        if: contains(matrix.os, 'ubuntu') && success()
+        run: |
+          echo "DISPLAY=:99.0" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+
+      #  branched loop unrolling using yaml, yey!
+
+      - &run-test
+        name: Run Test
+        if: ${{ steps.check1.outputs.stop_tests != 'true' && steps.check2.outputs.stop_tests != 'true' && steps.check3.outputs.stop_tests != 'true' }}
+        continue-on-error: ${{ !inputs.stop_on_failure }}
+        env:
+          COMMAND: ${{ inputs.command }}
+        run: bash -c "ant $COMMAND"
+
+      - name: Stop after 1?
+        if: ${{ inputs.iterations == '1' }}
+        id: check1
+        run: echo "stop_tests=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+#10
+
+      - name: Stop after 10?
+        if: ${{ inputs.iterations == '10' }}
+        id: check2
+        run: echo "stop_tests=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+#20
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      
+      - name: Stop after 25?
+        if: ${{ inputs.iterations == '25' }}
+        id: check3
+        run: echo "stop_tests=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+#30
+
+
+      - *run-test
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+#40
+
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+#50
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+#60
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+      - *run-test
+#70
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+#80
+
+      - *run-test
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+#90
+
+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
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+      - *run-test
+      - *run-test
+#100
+
+      - name: Upload Test XMLs
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: test-results
+          path: "./*/*/build/test/*/results/TEST-*.xml"
+          retention-days: 7
+
+      - name: Create Test Summary
+        uses: test-summary/action@37b508cfee6d4d080eedd00b5bb240a6a784a6a5 # v2.6
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          paths: "./*/*/build/test/*/results/TEST-*.xml"
+          show: "all"
+