anchor.diff:                                                         calc_sync_degree(DestVersCount - getVersionCount(getDBStatus()), 
                                                                           ItemCount)
                                                  end))],
  -    SyncMethod = lists:keyfind(rep_update_sync_method, 1, RepUpdConfig),
  +    SyncMethod = proplists:get_value(rep_update_recon_method, RepUpdConfig),
       ct:pal(">>[~p] SYNC RUN>> ~w Rounds  Fpr=~w  SyncLog ~w", [SyncMethod, Rounds, Fpr, Result]),
       %clean up
       unittest_helper:stop_ring(),
  
positive.code:     ct:pal("EXECUTION TIMES in microseconds (10^-6)~nBuildRing = ~w~nFillRing = ~w~nDBStatus = ~w~nGetVersionCount = ~w~nStopRing = ~w",
             [BuildRingTime, FillTime, DBStatusTime, GetVersionCountTime, StopRingTime]),
      ok.
  
  
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % Merkle Tree Tests
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  merkleSync_noOutdated(Config) ->
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 4, 1000, 0, 1, 0.1, get_merkle_tree_RepUpd_config()),
      ?assert(Start =:= End),
      ok.    
  
  merkleSync_simple(Config) ->
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 4, 1000, 10, 1, 0.2, get_merkle_tree_RepUpd_config()),
      ?assert(Start < End),
      ok.
  
  merkleSync_min_nodes(Config) ->
      MConf = get_merkle_tree_RepUpd_config(),
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 1, 1, 1000, 1, 0.2, MConf),
      ?assert(Start =:= End),
      ok.
  
  merkleSync_parts(Config) ->
      OldConf = get_merkle_tree_RepUpd_config(),
      MConf = lists:keyreplace(rep_update_max_items, 1, OldConf, {rep_update_max_items, 500}),
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 4, 1000, 100, 1, 0.2, MConf),
      ?assert(Start < End),
      ok.
  
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % ART Tests
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  
  artSync_noOutdated(Config) ->
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 4, 1000, 0, 1, 0.1, get_art_RepUpd_config()),
      ?assert(Start =:= End),
      ok.
  
  artSync_simple(Config) ->
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 4, 1000, 10, 1, 0.2, get_art_RepUpd_config()),
      ?assert(Start < End),    
      ok.
  
  artSync_min_nodes(Config) ->
      [Start, End] = start_sync(Config, 1, 1, 1000, 1, 0.2, get_art_RepUpd_config()),
      ?assert(Start =:= End),
      ok.    
  
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % Helper Functions
  
negative.code: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % Bloom Filter Tests
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  
  bloomSync_times(Config) ->
      %Parameter
  