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The default Author of a Run is a list of all testers from any execution the execution logs and execution log steps in the run.
The Author field is configurable. For example, Actual Testers, Route Owner, or a field in the run.
The Author field can be a list of Authors.
All authors in the Author field will be excluded from Approval if the route is configured for prevent Author Approval.
Email notifications are suppressed for authors if Author Exclusion is enabled for the route.
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