Glossary

CWD

The abbreviation for current working directory.

DSL

The abbreviation for Domain Specific Language.

role

The role of a remote machine as seen by pas. The default configuration defines and leverages the usage of a client role to run the POP application, a master role where the master jobmgr instance is run on and a slave role on which the slave jobmgr instances are run on.

testing environment

A directory structure as set up by running the pas init command containing all the needed assets to run measure cases and report results.

A testing environment normally contains a set of custom virtual machines, some related measure cases, environment specific settings and the results of the different measures.

virtual machine box

A virtual machine box is a package containing a disk image with a preconfigured operating system on it. It can either already be present on the host system or automatically downloads from the internet when needed.