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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<FindBugsFilter>
+<Match>
+  <!-- the Match filter is equivalent to a logical 'And' -->
+
+  <Class name="~.*\.*Test" />
+  <!-- test classes are suffixed by 'Test' -->
+
+  <Not>
+      <Bug code="IJU" /> <!-- 'IJU' is the code for bugs related to JUnit test code -->
+  </Not>
+</Match>
+</FindBugsFilter>