diff --git a/src/test/scala/concpar21final03/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala b/src/test/scala/concpar21final03/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala
index 987f4450fc267cc79c6c6cd5561d3450a0280645..ede7f657724ad89d42783c769cb29105607551ca 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/concpar21final03/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/concpar21final03/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import Stats.*
 object TestHelper:
   val noOfSchedules = 10000 // set this to 100k during deployment
   val readWritesPerThread =
-    20 // maximum number of read/writes possible in one thread
-  val contextSwitchBound = 10
+    100 // maximum number of read/writes possible in one thread
+  val contextSwitchBound = 500
   val testTimeout = 150 // the total time out for a test in seconds
   val schedTimeout =
     15 // the total time out for execution of a schedule in secs
diff --git a/src/test/scala/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala b/src/test/scala/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala
index 107180a1397948e63094e6e4625ffc07cb2f809e..6a58431f94320a8dd5057ccc2f1ad353c11dd498 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/instrumentation/TestHelper.scala
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import Stats.*
 object TestHelper:
   val noOfSchedules = 10000 // set this to 100k during deployment
   val readWritesPerThread =
-    20 // maximum number of read/writes possible in one thread
-  val contextSwitchBound = 10
+    100 // maximum number of read/writes possible in one thread
+  val contextSwitchBound = 500
   val testTimeout = 240 // the total time out for a test in seconds
   val schedTimeout =
     15 // the total time out for execution of a schedule in secs
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ object TestHelper:
     val scheduleLength = readWritesPerThread * numThreads
     val rands =
       (1 to scheduleLength).map(i =>
-        new Random(0xcafe * i)
+        new Random(0x0042 * i)
       ) // random numbers for choosing a thread at each position
     def schedules(): LazyList[List[Int]] =
       var contextSwitches = 0