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Generally, it means that the behavior of Alya is wrong and that you should investigate why results are different from what you expected. However, it could also be related to rounding issues generated by a specific compiler or architecture, which leads to small but acceptable differences compared to the reference values. In this case, you may want to adjust your test tolerance so the testsuite does not trigger a failure.
This operation can be done modifying the `.json` associated with the test (see https://gitlab.bsc.es/alya/alya-testsuite/wikis/Contribution-workflow to know how to proceed).
In the section `comparisons` of the `.json` file, you will find a list of files are compared.
This operation can be done modifying the `.json` associated with the test (see https://gitlab.bsc.es/alya/alya-testsuite/wikis/Test-configuration to know how to proceed).
In the section `comparisons` of the `.json` file, you will find a list of files that are compared.
For each file, there is a field "method" that is used to define how to compare the reference and the test result files, and a field "tolerance" that corresponds to the value associated with this method.
##### "method": "absolute"
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