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+// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
+// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+namespace System
+{
+    public static class TestEnvironment
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Check if the stress mode is enabled.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <value> true if the environment variable DOTNET_TEST_STRESS set to '1' or 'true'. returns false otherwise</value>
+        public static bool IsStressModeEnabled
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                string value = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("DOTNET_TEST_STRESS");
+                return value != null && (value == "1" || value.Equals("true", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}