A name/value pair derived from a configuration file and used by test suite specific plugin code to execute and run tests. These name/value pairs provide information (configuration values) about how to run tests of a test suite on a particular platform.
For test suites prior to the JavaTest 3.0 harness, the name/value pairs are read from an environment file (.jte).
For JavaTest 3.0 (or later) test suites, the the name/value pairs are derived from the configuration file (.jti).