Github user velo commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/209#issuecomment-186490946 The way it was before, I would see intermittent errors on windows. AwaitTermination will "Blocks until all tasks have completed execution after a shutdown request, or the timeout occurs, or the current thread is interrupted, whichever happens first." So, it will either return after timeout or well all finish. Them it runs a forcefully shutdown. That way this tests become stable either here or in the appveyor.
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