Index: tests/Makefile
==================================================================
--- tests/Makefile
+++ tests/Makefile
@@ -23,10 +23,13 @@
 
 all : build unit test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9
 
 unit : basicserver.log runs.log misc.log
 
+rel : 
+	cd release;dashboard -rows 25 &
+
 ## basicserver.log : unittests/basicserver.scm
 ## 	script -c "./rununittest.sh basicserver $(DEBUG)" basicserver.log
 
 %.log : build unittests/%.scm
 	script -c "./rununittest.sh $* $(DEBUG)" $*.log

Index: tests/fdktestqa/testqa/Makefile
==================================================================
--- tests/fdktestqa/testqa/Makefile
+++ tests/fdktestqa/testqa/Makefile
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 PATH     := $(BINDIR):$(PATH)
 MEGATEST  = $(BINDIR)/megatest
 DASHBOARD = $(BINDIR)/dashboard
 NEWDASHBOARD = $(BINDIR)/newdashboard
 RUNNAME   = a
-
+NUMTESTS  = 20
 
 all :
 	$(MEGATEST) -remove-runs -target a/b :runname c -testpatt %/%
 	$(MEGATEST) -runtests % -target a/b :runname c
 
@@ -14,17 +14,17 @@
 	for tn in a b c d;do \
 	   ($(MEGATEST) -runtests % -target a/b :runname $tn & ) ; \
 	done
 
 bigrun :
-	$(MEGATEST) -runtests bigrun -target a/bigrun :runname a$(shell date +%V)
+	NUMTESTS=$(NUMTESTS) $(MEGATEST) -runtests bigrun -target a/bigrun :runname a$(shell date +%V)
 
 bigrun2 :
-	$(MEGATEST) -runtests bigrun2 -target a/bigrun2 :runname a$(shell date +%V)
+	NUMTESTS=$(NUMTESTS) $(MEGATEST) -runtests bigrun2 -target a/bigrun2 :runname a$(shell date +%V)
 
 bigrun3 :
-	$(MEGATEST) -runtests bigrun3 -target a/bigrun3 :runname $(RUNNAME)
+	NUMTESTS=$(NUMTESTS) $(MEGATEST) -runtests bigrun3 -target a/bigrun3 :runname $(RUNNAME)
 
 dashboard : 
 	mkdir -p ../simpleruns
 	$(DASHBOARD) -rows 20 &
 

ADDED   tests/release/tests/itemwait/testconfig
Index: tests/release/tests/itemwait/testconfig
==================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ tests/release/tests/itemwait/testconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# test2 from the tests/Makefile
+
+[var]
+tname itemwait
+
+[prelaunch-env-vars]
+NUMTESTS 20
+
+[ezsteps]
+
+# Set things up
+clean      $MTRUNNER $MTTESTDIR/fdktestqa/testqa $MTPATH megatest -remove-runs -testpatt % -target  % -runname #{get var tname}%
+runbigrun3 $MTRUNNER $MTTESTDIR/fdktestqa/testqa $MTPATH megatest -run     -testpatt bigrun3 -target a/bigrun3 -runname #{get var tname}
+# watchrun watches until it sees at least one RUNNING in bigrun and one PASS in bigrun2
+watchrun   watchrun.sh #{get var tname}
+
+[requirements]
+# waiton  #{getenv ALL_TOPLEVEL_TESTS}
+
+# This is a "toplevel" test, it does not require waitons to be non-FAIL to run
+# mode toplevel
+
+
+# test2 : fullprep

ADDED   tests/release/tests/itemwait/watchrun.sh
Index: tests/release/tests/itemwait/watchrun.sh
==================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ tests/release/tests/itemwait/watchrun.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+runname=$1
+
+pass=1
+alldone=1
+while ! $alldone;do
+    sleep 5
+    bigrun_running=$(megatest -list-runs a|egrep 'bigrun\(.*RUNNING'|wc -l)
+    bigrun2_pass=$(megatest -list-runs a|egrep 'bigrun2.*COMPLETED.*PASS')
+    if [[ $bigrun_running -gt 0 && $bigrun2_pass -gt 0 ]];then
+	pass=0
+	alldone=0
+    fi
+done
+
+if $pass;then
+    echo PASS
+    exit 0
+else
+    echo FAIL
+    exit 1
+fi