Removing lines 119--134 causes `LocalInstanceManagerTest` to fail, because `createDefaultInstanceType()` (line 103 in your version) returns the characteristics of the caller instead of reading them from the config file.

I think we should just remove `LocalInstanceManagerTest` and someone should finally do #33.

**Note**: When I tried to run the test inside of IntelliJ, I noticed that the path extraction for the config also doesn't work, whereas it works on the command line via `mvn`. In IntelliJ, instead of .../stratosphere **/stratosphere-runtime/** src/test/resources it returns *.../stratosphere/src/test/resources* w/o the subdirectory.