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The 'build info' parameter

Parameter Name: random seed for random order of test cases
Environment variable name: BOOST_TEST_RANDOM
Command line argument name: random
Acceptable Values: 0
1
integer value > 1
Description: positive value makes the framework to run the test cases in random order. Also if this value is greater than 1 it's used as a random seed. In other case random seed is generated based on current time