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+# Copyright 2025 ACSONE SA/NV
+# License AGPL-3.0 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl).
+from contextlib import closing
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+
+from odoo.tests.common import TransactionCase
+
+from odoo.addons.queue_job.job import Job
+from odoo.addons.queue_job.jobrunner.runner import Database
+
+
+class TestRequeueDeadJob(TransactionCase):
+    def create_dummy_job(self, uuid):
+        """
+        Create dummy job for tests
+        """
+        return (
+            self.env["queue.job"]
+            .with_context(
+                _job_edit_sentinel=self.env["queue.job"].EDIT_SENTINEL,
+            )
+            .create(
+                {
+                    "uuid": uuid,
+                    "user_id": self.env.user.id,
+                    "state": "pending",
+                    "model_name": "queue.job",
+                    "method_name": "write",
+                }
+            )
+        )
+
+    def get_locks(self, uuid, cr=None):
+        """
+        Retrieve lock rows
+        """
+        if cr is None:
+            cr = self.env.cr
+
+        cr.execute(
+            """
+            SELECT
+                queue_job_id
+            FROM
+                queue_job_lock
+            WHERE
+                queue_job_id IN (
+                    SELECT
+                        id
+                    FROM
+                        queue_job
+                    WHERE
+                        uuid = %s
+                )
+            FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
+            """,
+            [uuid],
+        )
+
+        return cr.fetchall()
+
+    def test_add_lock_record(self):
+        queue_job = self.create_dummy_job("test_add_lock")
+        job_obj = Job.load(self.env, queue_job.uuid)
+
+        job_obj.set_started()
+        self.assertEqual(job_obj.state, "started")
+
+        locks = self.get_locks(job_obj.uuid)
+
+        self.assertEqual(1, len(locks))
+
+    def test_lock(self):
+        queue_job = self.create_dummy_job("test_lock")
+        job_obj = Job.load(self.env, queue_job.uuid)
+
+        job_obj.set_started()
+        job_obj.store()
+
+        locks = self.get_locks(job_obj.uuid)
+
+        self.assertEqual(1, len(locks))
+
+        # commit to update queue_job records in DB
+        self.env.cr.commit()  # pylint: disable=E8102
+
+        job_obj.lock()
+
+        with closing(self.env.registry.cursor()) as new_cr:
+            locks = self.get_locks(job_obj.uuid, new_cr)
+
+            # Row should be locked
+            self.assertEqual(0, len(locks))
+
+        # clean up
+        queue_job.unlink()
+
+        self.env.cr.commit()  # pylint: disable=E8102
+
+        # because we committed the cursor, the savepoint of the test method is
+        # gone, and this would break TransactionCase cleanups
+        self.cr.execute("SAVEPOINT test_%d" % self._savepoint_id)
+
+    def test_requeue_dead_jobs(self):
+        uuid = "test_requeue_dead_jobs"
+
+        queue_job = self.create_dummy_job(uuid)
+        job_obj = Job.load(self.env, queue_job.uuid)
+
+        job_obj.set_enqueued()
+        # simulate enqueuing was in the past
+        job_obj.date_enqueued = datetime.now() - timedelta(minutes=1)
+        job_obj.set_started()
+
+        job_obj.store()
+        self.env.cr.commit()  # pylint: disable=E8102
+
+        # requeue dead jobs using current cursor
+        query = Database(self.env.cr.dbname)._query_requeue_dead_jobs()
+        self.env.cr.execute(query)
+
+        uuids_requeued = self.env.cr.fetchall()
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(uuids_requeued), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(uuids_requeued[0][0], uuid)
+
+        # clean up
+        queue_job.unlink()
+        self.env.cr.commit()  # pylint: disable=E8102
+
+        # because we committed the cursor, the savepoint of the test method is
+        # gone, and this would break TransactionCase cleanups
+        self.cr.execute("SAVEPOINT test_%d" % self._savepoint_id)