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Expand Up @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ While this is just a demonstration, a local server is often used as a fixture ac

Sometimes there is a need to test Workflows that run a long time or to test that timeouts occur.
A time-skipping `Temporalio.Testing.WorkflowEnvironment` can be started via `StartTimeSkippingAsync` which is a reimplementation of the Temporal server with special time skipping capabilities.

Like `StartLocalAsync`, this also lazily downloads the process to run when first called.
Note, unlike `StartLocalAsync`, this class is not thread safe nor safe for use with independent tests.
It can be technically be reused, but only for one test at a time because time skipping is locked/unlocked at the environment level.
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This test will run almost instantly.
This is because by calling `ExecuteWorkflowAsync` on our client, we are actually calling `StartWorkflowAsync` + `GetResultAsync`, and `GetResultAsync` automatically skips time as much as it can (basically until the end of the workflow or until an activity is run).
This is because by calling `ExecuteWorkflowAsync` on our client, we are actually calling `StartWorkflowAsync` + `GetResultAsync`, and `GetResultAsync` automatically skips time as much as it can (basically until the end of the Workflow or until an Activity is run).

To disable automatic time-skipping while waiting for a workflow result, run code as a lambda passed to `env.WithAutoTimeSkippingDisabled` or `env.WithAutoTimeSkippingDisabledAsync`.

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