diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/dataload/DataLoadTest.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/dataload/DataLoadTest.java
index 7787347..321b5b2 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/dataload/DataLoadTest.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/dataload/DataLoadTest.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.clusterconfig.ClusterConfig;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex.SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex.SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.util.TestUtils;
 
 @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     public DataLoadTest() throws Exception {
         job = new PregelixJob(GIRAPH_JOB_NAME);
         job.setVertexClass(PageRankVertex.class);
-        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat.class);
         job.getConfiguration().setClass(PregelixJob.VERTEX_INDEX_CLASS, LongWritable.class, WritableComparable.class);
         job.getConfiguration().setClass(PregelixJob.VERTEX_VALUE_CLASS, DoubleWritable.class, Writable.class);
         job.getConfiguration().setClass(PregelixJob.EDGE_VALUE_CLASS, FloatWritable.class, Writable.class);
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
         ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
         ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
         cleanupStores();
-        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init();
+        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init("src/test/resources/topology.xml");
         PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.createApp(HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
         LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
         startHDFS();
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java
index c0b4a10..ca5a1c4 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobgen/JobGenerator.java
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.api.job.PregelixJob;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.ConnectedComponentsVertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.ConnectedComponentsVertex.SimpleConnectedComponentsVertexOutputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.GraphMutationVertex;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.GraphMutationVertex.SimpleGraphMutationVertexOutputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex;
-import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex.SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex.SimplePageRankVertexOutputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex.SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.ReachabilityVertex;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.ReachabilityVertex.SimpleReachibilityVertexOutputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.ShortestPathsVertex;
@@ -35,6 +37,14 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.inputformat.TextPageRankInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.inputformat.TextReachibilityVertexInputFormat;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.inputformat.TextShortestPathsInputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueAggregator;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex.MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TextTriangleCountingInputFormat;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TriangleCountingAggregator;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TriangleCountingVertex;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TriangleCountingVertex.TriangleCountingVertexOutputFormat;
 
 public class JobGenerator {
     private static String outputBase = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
@@ -44,6 +54,9 @@
     private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH2 = "/webmapcomplex";
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH2 = "/resultcomplex";
 
+    private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH3 = "/clique";
+    private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3 = "/resultclique";
+
     private static void generatePageRankJobReal(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
         PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
         job.setVertexClass(PageRankVertex.class);
@@ -148,7 +161,7 @@
     private static void generatePageRankJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
         PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
         job.setVertexClass(PageRankVertex.class);
-        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat.class);
         job.setMessageCombinerClass(PageRankVertex.SimpleSumCombiner.class);
         job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexOutputFormat.class);
         FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH);
@@ -157,26 +170,74 @@
         job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
     }
 
+    private static void generateShortestPathJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(ShortestPathsVertex.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat.class);
+        job.setMessageCombinerClass(ShortestPathsVertex.SimpleMinCombiner.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH));
+        job.getConfiguration().setLong(PregelixJob.NUM_VERTICE, 20);
+        job.getConfiguration().setLong(ShortestPathsVertex.SOURCE_ID, 0);
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
+
+    private static void generatePageRankJobRealDynamic(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(PageRankVertex.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(TextPageRankInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        job.setMessageCombinerClass(PageRankVertex.SimpleSumCombiner.class);
+        job.setDynamicVertexValueSize(true);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH));
+        job.getConfiguration().setLong(PregelixJob.NUM_VERTICE, 20);
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
+
+    private static void generateTriangleCountingJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(TriangleCountingVertex.class);
+        job.setGlobalAggregatorClass(TriangleCountingAggregator.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(TextTriangleCountingInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(TriangleCountingVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH3);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
+
+    private static void generateMaximalCliqueJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(MaximalCliqueVertex.class);
+        job.setGlobalAggregatorClass(MaximalCliqueAggregator.class);
+        job.setDynamicVertexValueSize(true);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH3);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
+
+    private static void generateGraphMutationJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
+        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
+        job.setVertexClass(GraphMutationVertex.class);
+        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(TextPageRankInputFormat.class);
+        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(SimpleGraphMutationVertexOutputFormat.class);
+        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH);
+        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH));
+        job.getConfiguration().setLong(PregelixJob.NUM_VERTICE, 20);
+        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
+    }
+
     private static void genPageRank() throws IOException {
         generatePageRankJob("PageRank", outputBase + "PageRank.xml");
         generatePageRankJobReal("PageRank", outputBase + "PageRankReal.xml");
+        generatePageRankJobRealDynamic("PageRank", outputBase + "PageRankRealDynamic.xml");
         generatePageRankJobRealComplex("PageRank", outputBase + "PageRankRealComplex.xml");
         generatePageRankJobRealNoCombiner("PageRank", outputBase + "PageRankRealNoCombiner.xml");
     }
 
-    private static void generateShortestPathJob(String jobName, String outputPath) throws IOException {
-        PregelixJob job = new PregelixJob(jobName);
-        job.setVertexClass(ShortestPathsVertex.class);
-        job.setVertexInputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat.class);
-        job.setMessageCombinerClass(ShortestPathsVertex.SimpleMinCombiner.class);
-        job.setVertexOutputFormatClass(SimplePageRankVertexOutputFormat.class);
-        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH);
-        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH));
-        job.getConfiguration().setLong(PregelixJob.NUM_VERTICE, 20);
-        job.getConfiguration().setLong(ShortestPathsVertex.SOURCE_ID, 0);
-        job.getConfiguration().writeXml(new FileOutputStream(new File(outputPath)));
-    }
-
     private static void genShortestPath() throws IOException {
         generateShortestPathJob("ShortestPaths", outputBase + "ShortestPaths.xml");
         generateShortestPathJobReal("ShortestPaths", outputBase + "ShortestPathsReal.xml");
@@ -194,11 +255,25 @@
                 + "ReachibilityRealComplexNoConnectivity.xml");
     }
 
+    private static void genTriangleCounting() throws IOException {
+        generateTriangleCountingJob("Triangle Counting", outputBase + "TriangleCounting.xml");
+    }
+
+    private static void genMaximalClique() throws IOException {
+        generateMaximalCliqueJob("Maximal Clique", outputBase + "MaximalClique.xml");
+    }
+
+    private static void genGraphMutation() throws IOException {
+        generateGraphMutationJob("Graph Mutation", outputBase + "GraphMutation.xml");
+    }
+
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
         genPageRank();
         genShortestPath();
         genConnectedComponents();
         genReachibility();
+        genTriangleCounting();
+        genMaximalClique();
+        genGraphMutation();
     }
-
 }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java
index 89bce34..5a556fa 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestCase.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGen;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenInnerJoin;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoin;
+import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.jobgen.JobGenOuterJoinSort;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.core.util.PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil;
 import edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.util.IterationUtils;
@@ -37,13 +38,16 @@
 
 public class RunJobTestCase extends TestCase {
     private static final String NC1 = "nc1";
-    private static final String HYRACKS_APP_NAME = "giraph";
+    private static final String HYRACKS_APP_NAME = "pregelix";
     private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH = "/webmap";
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH = "/result";
 
     private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH2 = "/webmapcomplex";
     private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH2 = "/resultcomplex";
 
+    private static String HDFS_INPUTPATH3 = "/clique";
+    private static String HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3 = "/resultclique";
+
     private final PregelixJob job;
     private JobGen[] giraphJobGens;
     private final String resultFileName;
@@ -61,21 +65,24 @@
         if (inputPaths[0].toString().endsWith(HDFS_INPUTPATH)) {
             FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH);
             FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH));
-        } else {
+        } else if (inputPaths[0].toString().endsWith(HDFS_INPUTPATH2)) {
             FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH2);
             FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH2));
+        } else {
+            FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, HDFS_INPUTPATH3);
+            FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(HDFS_OUTPUTPAH3));
         }
         job.setJobName(jobName);
         this.resultFileName = resultFile;
         this.expectedFileName = expectedFile;
-        giraphJobGens = new JobGen[3];
+        giraphJobGens = new JobGen[4];
         giraphJobGens[0] = new JobGenOuterJoin(job);
         waitawhile();
         giraphJobGens[1] = new JobGenInnerJoin(job);
         waitawhile();
         giraphJobGens[2] = new JobGenOuterJoinSort(job);
-        //waitawhile();
-        // giraphJobGens[3] = new JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort(job);
+        waitawhile();
+        giraphJobGens[3] = new JobGenOuterJoinSingleSort(job);
     }
 
     private void waitawhile() throws InterruptedException {
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java
index 8a5c34b..fa98ebd 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/jobrun/RunJobTestSuite.java
@@ -41,160 +41,176 @@
 
 @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
 public class RunJobTestSuite extends TestSuite {
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(RunJobTestSuite.class.getName());
+	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(RunJobTestSuite.class
+			.getName());
 
-    private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "actual";
-    private static final String EXPECTED_RESULT_DIR = "src/test/resources/expected";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_IGNORE = "src/test/resources/ignore.txt";
-    private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only.txt";
-    private static final String FILE_EXTENSION_OF_RESULTS = "result";
+	private static final String ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR = "actual";
+	private static final String EXPECTED_RESULT_DIR = "src/test/resources/expected";
+	private static final String PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF = "src/test/resources/hadoop/conf";
+	private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE = "src/test/resources/cluster/stores.properties";
+	private static final String PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES = "src/test/resources/cluster/cluster.properties";
+	private static final String PATH_TO_JOBS = "src/test/resources/jobs/";
+	private static final String PATH_TO_IGNORE = "src/test/resources/ignore.txt";
+	private static final String PATH_TO_ONLY = "src/test/resources/only.txt";
+	private static final String FILE_EXTENSION_OF_RESULTS = "result";
 
-    private static final String DATA_PATH = "data/webmap/webmap_link.txt";
-    private static final String HDFS_PATH = "/webmap/";
+	private static final String DATA_PATH = "data/webmap/webmap_link.txt";
+	private static final String HDFS_PATH = "/webmap/";
 
-    private static final String DATA_PATH2 = "data/webmapcomplex/webmap_link.txt";
-    private static final String HDFS_PATH2 = "/webmapcomplex/";
+	private static final String DATA_PATH2 = "data/webmapcomplex/webmap_link.txt";
+	private static final String HDFS_PATH2 = "/webmapcomplex/";
 
-    private static final String HYRACKS_APP_NAME = "giraph";
-    private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + "conf.xml";
-    private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
+	private static final String DATA_PATH3 = "data/clique/clique.txt";
+	private static final String HDFS_PATH3 = "/clique/";
 
-    private JobConf conf = new JobConf();
-    private int numberOfNC = 2;
+	private static final String HYRACKS_APP_NAME = "pregelix";
+	private static final String HADOOP_CONF_PATH = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR
+			+ File.separator + "conf.xml";
+	private MiniDFSCluster dfsCluster;
 
-    public void setUp() throws Exception {
-        ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
-        ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
-        cleanupStores();
-        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init();
-        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.createApp(HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
-        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
-        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
-        startHDFS();
-    }
+	private JobConf conf = new JobConf();
+	private int numberOfNC = 2;
 
-    private void cleanupStores() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("teststore"));
-        FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("build"));
-        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("teststore"));
-        FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("build"));
-    }
+	public void setUp() throws Exception {
+		ClusterConfig.setStorePath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_STORE);
+		ClusterConfig.setClusterPropertiesPath(PATH_TO_CLUSTER_PROPERTIES);
+		cleanupStores();
+		PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.init("src/test/resources/topology.xml");
+		PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.createApp(HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
+		LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster started");
+		FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+		FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File(ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR));
+		startHDFS();
+	}
 
-    private void startHDFS() throws IOException {
-        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/core-site.xml"));
-        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
-        conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
-        FileSystem lfs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
-        lfs.delete(new Path("build"), true);
-        System.setProperty("hadoop.log.dir", "logs");
-        dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(conf, numberOfNC, true, null);
-        FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
-        Path src = new Path(DATA_PATH);
-        Path dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH);
-        dfs.mkdirs(dest);
-        dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
+	private void cleanupStores() throws IOException {
+		FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("teststore"));
+		FileUtils.forceMkdir(new File("build"));
+		FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("teststore"));
+		FileUtils.cleanDirectory(new File("build"));
+	}
 
-        src = new Path(DATA_PATH2);
-        dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH2);
-        dfs.mkdirs(dest);
-        dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
+	private void startHDFS() throws IOException {
+		conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/core-site.xml"));
+		conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/mapred-site.xml"));
+		conf.addResource(new Path(PATH_TO_HADOOP_CONF + "/hdfs-site.xml"));
+		FileSystem lfs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
+		lfs.delete(new Path("build"), true);
+		System.setProperty("hadoop.log.dir", "logs");
+		dfsCluster = new MiniDFSCluster(conf, numberOfNC, true, null);
+		FileSystem dfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
+		Path src = new Path(DATA_PATH);
+		Path dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH);
+		dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+		dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
 
-        DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
-        conf.writeXml(confOutput);
-        confOutput.flush();
-        confOutput.close();
-    }
+		src = new Path(DATA_PATH2);
+		dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH2);
+		dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+		dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
 
-    /**
-     * cleanup hdfs cluster
-     */
-    private void cleanupHDFS() throws Exception {
-        dfsCluster.shutdown();
-    }
+		src = new Path(DATA_PATH3);
+		dest = new Path(HDFS_PATH3);
+		dfs.mkdirs(dest);
+		dfs.copyFromLocalFile(src, dest);
 
-    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
-        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.destroyApp(HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
-        PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.deinit();
-        LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster shut down");
-        cleanupHDFS();
-    }
+		DataOutputStream confOutput = new DataOutputStream(
+				new FileOutputStream(new File(HADOOP_CONF_PATH)));
+		conf.writeXml(confOutput);
+		confOutput.flush();
+		confOutput.close();
+	}
 
-    public static Test suite() throws Exception {
-        List<String> ignores = getFileList(PATH_TO_IGNORE);
-        List<String> onlys = getFileList(PATH_TO_ONLY);
-        File testData = new File(PATH_TO_JOBS);
-        File[] queries = testData.listFiles();
-        RunJobTestSuite testSuite = new RunJobTestSuite();
-        testSuite.setUp();
-        boolean onlyEnabled = false;
+	/**
+	 * cleanup hdfs cluster
+	 */
+	private void cleanupHDFS() throws Exception {
+		dfsCluster.shutdown();
+	}
 
-        if (onlys.size() > 0) {
-            onlyEnabled = true;
-        }
-        for (File qFile : queries) {
-            if (isInList(ignores, qFile.getName()))
-                continue;
+	public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+		PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.destroyApp(HYRACKS_APP_NAME);
+		PregelixHyracksIntegrationUtil.deinit();
+		LOGGER.info("Hyracks mini-cluster shut down");
+		cleanupHDFS();
+	}
 
-            if (qFile.isFile()) {
-                if (onlyEnabled && !isInList(onlys, qFile.getName())) {
-                    continue;
-                } else {
-                    String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName());
-                    String expectedFileName = EXPECTED_RESULT_DIR + File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName());
-                    testSuite.addTest(new RunJobTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH, qFile.getName(), qFile.getAbsolutePath()
-                            .toString(), resultFileName, expectedFileName));
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        return testSuite;
-    }
+	public static Test suite() throws Exception {
+		List<String> ignores = getFileList(PATH_TO_IGNORE);
+		List<String> onlys = getFileList(PATH_TO_ONLY);
+		File testData = new File(PATH_TO_JOBS);
+		File[] queries = testData.listFiles();
+		RunJobTestSuite testSuite = new RunJobTestSuite();
+		testSuite.setUp();
+		boolean onlyEnabled = false;
 
-    /**
-     * Runs the tests and collects their result in a TestResult.
-     */
-    @Override
-    public void run(TestResult result) {
-        try {
-            int testCount = countTestCases();
-            for (int i = 0; i < testCount; i++) {
-                // cleanupStores();
-                Test each = this.testAt(i);
-                if (result.shouldStop())
-                    break;
-                runTest(each, result);
-            }
-            tearDown();
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
-        }
-    }
+		if (onlys.size() > 0) {
+			onlyEnabled = true;
+		}
+		for (File qFile : queries) {
+			if (isInList(ignores, qFile.getName()))
+				continue;
 
-    protected static List<String> getFileList(String ignorePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
-        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ignorePath));
-        String s = null;
-        List<String> ignores = new ArrayList<String>();
-        while ((s = reader.readLine()) != null) {
-            ignores.add(s);
-        }
-        reader.close();
-        return ignores;
-    }
+			if (qFile.isFile()) {
+				if (onlyEnabled && !isInList(onlys, qFile.getName())) {
+					continue;
+				} else {
+					String resultFileName = ACTUAL_RESULT_DIR + File.separator
+							+ jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName());
+					String expectedFileName = EXPECTED_RESULT_DIR
+							+ File.separator + jobExtToResExt(qFile.getName());
+					testSuite.addTest(new RunJobTestCase(HADOOP_CONF_PATH,
+							qFile.getName(),
+							qFile.getAbsolutePath().toString(), resultFileName,
+							expectedFileName));
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return testSuite;
+	}
 
-    private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
-        int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
-        return fname.substring(0, dot + 1) + FILE_EXTENSION_OF_RESULTS;
-    }
+	/**
+	 * Runs the tests and collects their result in a TestResult.
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public void run(TestResult result) {
+		try {
+			int testCount = countTestCases();
+			for (int i = 0; i < testCount; i++) {
+				// cleanupStores();
+				Test each = this.testAt(i);
+				if (result.shouldStop())
+					break;
+				runTest(each, result);
+			}
+			tearDown();
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+		}
+	}
 
-    private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
-        for (String only : onlys)
-            if (name.indexOf(only) >= 0)
-                return true;
-        return false;
-    }
+	protected static List<String> getFileList(String ignorePath)
+			throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ignorePath));
+		String s = null;
+		List<String> ignores = new ArrayList<String>();
+		while ((s = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+			ignores.add(s);
+		}
+		reader.close();
+		return ignores;
+	}
+
+	private static String jobExtToResExt(String fname) {
+		int dot = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
+		return fname.substring(0, dot + 1) + FILE_EXTENSION_OF_RESULTS;
+	}
+
+	private static boolean isInList(List<String> onlys, String name) {
+		for (String only : onlys)
+			if (name.indexOf(only) >= 0)
+				return true;
+		return false;
+	}
 
 }
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java
index 1b22b47..d89ec46 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/java/edu/uci/ics/pregelix/example/util/TestUtils.java
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
             if (row1.equals(row2))
                 continue;
 
-            String[] fields1 = row1.split(",");
-            String[] fields2 = row2.split(",");
+            String[] fields1 = row1.split(" ");
+            String[] fields2 = row2.split(" ");
 
             for (int j = 0; j < fields1.length; j++) {
                 if (fields1[j].equals(fields2[j])) {
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@
                 } else if (fields1[j].indexOf('.') < 0) {
                     return false;
                 } else {
-                    fields1[j] = fields1[j].split("=")[1];
-                    fields2[j] = fields2[j].split("=")[1];
                     Double double1 = Double.parseDouble(fields1[j]);
                     Double double2 = Double.parseDouble(fields2[j]);
                     float float1 = (float) double1.doubleValue();
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result
index b8efedc..45376e2 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsReal.result
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
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-9|Vertex(id=9,value=0, edges=(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,))
-10|Vertex(id=10,value=0, edges=(11,))
-11|Vertex(id=11,value=0, edges=(11,12,))
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result
index ad448b2..dbc30fc 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ConnectedComponentsRealComplex.result
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
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-10|Vertex(id=10,value=0, edges=(11,99,))
-11|Vertex(id=11,value=0, edges=(11,12,101,))
-12|Vertex(id=12,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,))
-13|Vertex(id=13,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,14,))
-14|Vertex(id=14,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,14,15,))
-15|Vertex(id=15,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,14,15,16,))
-16|Vertex(id=16,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,14,15,16,17,))
-17|Vertex(id=17,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,))
-18|Vertex(id=18,value=0, edges=(11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,))
-19|Vertex(id=19,value=0, edges=(0,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,))
-21|Vertex(id=21,value=21, edges=(22,23,24,))
-25|Vertex(id=25,value=25, edges=())
-27|Vertex(id=27,value=27, edges=())
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+18 0
+19 0
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation.result
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a30166c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/GraphMutation.result
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
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+5 0.0
+7 0.0
+11 0.0
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+500 0.0
+700 0.0
+1100 0.0
+1300 0.0
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique.result
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d238037
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/MaximalClique.result
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+1 1,2,3,4;
+2 2,3,4;
+3 
+4 
+5 
+6 
+7 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result
index f38e191..9c4d83a 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRank.result
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result
index ab05d38..6432eda 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankReal.result
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index 1fc108a..2bd09e1 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealComplex.result
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealComplex.result
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealDynamic.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealDynamic.result
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6432eda
--- /dev/null
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealNoCombiner.result b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealNoCombiner.result
index ab05d38..9a747a6 100755
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealNoCombiner.result
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/PageRankRealNoCombiner.result
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index f2c31a6..b42462f 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/expected/ShortestPathsReal.result
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4818e13
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/log4j.properties b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/log4j.properties
index d5e6004..3335964 100755
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 # FSNamesystem Audit logging
 # All audit events are logged at INFO level
 #
-log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem.audit=WARN
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop=FATAL
 
 # Custom Logging levels
 
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/mapred-site.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/mapred-site.xml
index 1b9a4d6..71450f1 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/mapred-site.xml
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/hadoop/conf/mapred-site.xml
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
       <value>20</value>
    </property>
    <property>
-      <name>mapred.min.split.size</name>
-      <value>65536</value>
+      <name>mapred.max.split.size</name>
+      <value>128</value>
    </property>
 
 </configuration>
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/GraphMutation.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/GraphMutation.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9f51f6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/GraphMutation.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.input.dir</name><value>file:/webmap</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
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+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
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+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.dir</name><value>/result</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>Graph Mutation</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.numVertices</name><value>20</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.GraphMutationVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.GraphMutationVertex$SimpleGraphMutationVertexOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.inputformat.TextPageRankInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/MaximalClique.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/MaximalClique.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..616c647
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/MaximalClique.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.input.dir</name><value>file:/clique</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.dir</name><value>/resultclique</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>Maximal Clique</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueVertex$MaximalCliqueVertexOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.TextMaximalCliqueInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.aggregatorClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.maximalclique.MaximalCliqueAggregator</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRank.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRank.xml
index e425b38..744e5b0 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRank.xml
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRank.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 <property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
 <property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
-<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex$SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex$SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRankRealDynamic.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRankRealDynamic.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1a04ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/PageRankRealDynamic.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.input.dir</name><value>file:/webmap</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.dir</name><value>/result</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>PageRank</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.numVertices</name><value>20</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.combinerClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex$SimpleSumCombiner</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex$SimplePageRankVertexOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.inputformat.TextPageRankInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.incStateLength</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/ShortestPaths.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/ShortestPaths.xml
index 3719247..9e791e2 100644
--- a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/ShortestPaths.xml
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/ShortestPaths.xml
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 <property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
 <property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
-<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex$SimplePageRankVertexInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.PageRankVertex$SimulatedPageRankVertexInputFormat</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
 <property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/TriangleCounting.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/TriangleCounting.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f44f4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/jobs/TriangleCounting.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><configuration>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hsftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.input.dir</name><value>file:/clique</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.submit.replication</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.type</name><value>RECORD</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</name><value>0.66</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.java.opts</name><value>-Xmx200m</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</name><value>*</value></property>
+<property><name>keep.failed.task.files</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</name><value>3145728</value></property>
+<property><name>io.bytes.per.checksum</name><value>512</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.report.address</name><value>127.0.0.1:0</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.util.hash.type</name><value>murmur</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hdfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ramfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.hftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.period</name><value>3600</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.child.tmp</name><value>./tmp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>map.sort.class</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.dir</name><value>/resultclique</value></property>
+<property><name>io.map.index.skip</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compress</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.lazydecompress</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</name><value>5</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.name</name><value>Triangle Counting</value></property>
+<property><name>local.cache.size</name><value>10737418240</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3n.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.file.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50060</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.timeout</name><value>600000</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.kfs.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.blacklists</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.buffer.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</name><value>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.kill.max</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.record.percent</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.security.authorization</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.max.tracker.failures</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.default.name</name><value>file:///</value></property>
+<property><name>tasktracker.http.threads</name><value>40</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TriangleCountingVertex</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>io.file.buffer.size</name><value>4096</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</name><value>-1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl.disable.cache</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.maps</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.native.lib</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.block.size</name><value>67108864</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.http.address</name><value>0.0.0.0:50030</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>io.compression.codecs</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</name><value>0.70</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.queue.names</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.har.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.error.rate</name><value>0.005</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker</name><value>local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.skip.checksum.errors</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.maxRetries</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.server.listen.queue.size</name><value>128</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.trash.interval</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.s3.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</name><value>1000000</value></property>
+<property><name>io.mapfile.bloom.size</name><value>1048576</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.mb</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.local.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.factor</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.interval</name><value>30000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</name><value>5000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.profile.reduces</name><value>0-2</value></property>
+<property><name>webinterface.private.actions</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name><value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.temp.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.merge.recordsBeforeProgress</name><value>10000</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.compress.map.output</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>io.sort.spill.percent</name><value>0.80</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</name><value>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name><value>24</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.system.dir</name><value>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</name><value>1</value></property>
+<property><name>job.end.retry.attempts</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.idlethreshold</name><value>4000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexOutputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TriangleCountingVertex$TriangleCountingVertexOutputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</name><value>300</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</name><value>true</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</name><value>1000</value></property>
+<property><name>hadoop.logfile.size</name><value>10000000</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.vertexInputFormatClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TextTriangleCountingInputFormat</value></property>
+<property><name>pregelix.aggregatorClass</name><value>edu.uci.ics.pregelix.example.trianglecounting.TriangleCountingAggregator</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.queue.name</name><value>default</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name><value>0.05</value></property>
+<property><name>topology.script.number.args</name><value>100</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>fs.ftp.impl</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.task.cache.levels</name><value>2</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>io.serializations</name><value>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.connect.max.retries</name><value>10</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.min.split.size</name><value>0</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.map.max.attempts</name><value>4</value></property>
+<property><name>jobclient.output.filter</name><value>FAILED</value></property>
+<property><name>ipc.client.tcpnodelay</name><value>false</value></property>
+<property><name>mapred.acls.enabled</name><value>false</value></property>
+</configuration>
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diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/topology.xml b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/topology.xml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2a6c380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pregelix/pregelix-example/src/test/resources/topology.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<cluster-topology>
+    <network-switch name="Global">
+        <network-switch name="local">
+            <terminal name="127.1.0.1"/>
+        </network-switch>
+    </network-switch>
+</cluster-topology>
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