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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+ * 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.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.test.framework;
+
+/**
+ * CauseFailure provides a method to cause a failure in a messaging broker, usually used in conjunction with fail-over
+ * or other failure mode testing. In some cases failures may be automated, for example by shutting down an in-vm broker,
+ * or by sending a special control signal to a broker over a network connection. In other cases, it may be preferable
+ * to ask a user interactively to cause a failure scenario, in which case an implementation may display a prompt or
+ * dialog box asking for notification once the failure has been caused. The purpose of this interface is to abstract
+ * the exact cause and nature of a failure out of failure test cases.
+ *
+ * <p/><table id="crc"><caption>CRC Card</caption>
+ * <tr><th> Responsibilities
+ * <tr><td> Cause messaging broker failure.
+ * </table>
+ */
+public interface CauseFailure
+{
+    /**
+     * Causes the active message broker to fail.
+     */
+    void causeFailure();
+}