diff --git a/hivesterix-dist/src/test/resources/runtimefunctionts/hive/conf/hive-default.xml b/hivesterix-dist/src/test/resources/runtimefunctionts/hive/conf/hive-default.xml
index a4ee677..49cdedf 100644
--- a/hivesterix-dist/src/test/resources/runtimefunctionts/hive/conf/hive-default.xml
+++ b/hivesterix-dist/src/test/resources/runtimefunctionts/hive/conf/hive-default.xml
@@ -1,22 +1,66 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
- ! Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
- ! Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- ! you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- ! you may obtain a copy of the License from
- ! 
- !     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- ! 
- ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- ! distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- ! WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- ! See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- ! limitations under the License.
- !-->
+<!-- ! Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California 
+	! Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ! you may 
+	not use this file except in compliance with the License. ! you may obtain 
+	a copy of the License from ! ! http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
+	! ! Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ! 
+	distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ! WITHOUT 
+	WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ! See the 
+	License for the specific language governing permissions and ! limitations 
+	under the License. ! -->
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
 
 <configuration>
 
+	<!-- Hivesterix Execution Parameters -->
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.hyracks.connectorpolicy</name>
+		<value>PIPELINING</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.hyracks.parrallelism</name>
+		<value>4</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.algebricks.groupby.external</name>
+		<value>true</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.algebricks.groupby.external.memory</name>
+		<value>3072</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.algebricks.sort.memory</name>
+		<value>3072</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.algebricks.framesize</name>
+		<value>768</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.auto.convert.join</name>
+		<value>false</value>
+	</property>
+
+	<property>
+		<name>hive.auto.convert.join.noconditionaltask</name>
+		<value>false</value>
+		<description>Whether Hive enable the optimization about converting
+			common join into mapjoin based on the input file
+			size. If this paramater is on, and the sum of size for n-1 of the
+			tables/partitions for a n-way join is smaller than the
+			specified size, the join is directly converted to a mapjoin (there is no
+			conditional task).
+		</description>
+	</property>
+
+
 	<!-- Hive Configuration can either be stored in this file or in the hadoop 
 		configuration files -->
 	<!-- that are implied by Hadoop setup variables. -->
@@ -42,52 +86,6 @@
 	</property>
 
 	<property>
-		<name>hive.hyracks.connectorpolicy</name>
-		<value>SEND_SIDE_MAT_PIPELINING</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.hyracks.host</name>
-		<value>127.0.0.1</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.hyracks.port</name>
-		<value>13099</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.hyracks.app</name>
-		<value>hivesterix</value>
-	</property>
-
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.hyracks.parrallelism</name>
-		<value>2</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.algebricks.groupby.external</name>
-		<value>true</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.algebricks.groupby.external.memory</name>
-		<value>3072</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.algebricks.sort.memory</name>
-		<value>3072</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
-		<name>hive.algebricks.framesize</name>
-		<value>768</value>
-	</property>
-
-	<property>
 		<name>hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer</name>
 		<value>1000000000</value>
 		<description>size per reducer.The default is 1G, i.e if the input size