How to fight production incidents? an empirical study on a large-scale cloud service

S Ghosh, M Shetty, C Bansal, S Nath - … of the 13th Symposium on Cloud …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Production incidents in today's large-scale cloud services can be extremely expensive in
terms of customer impacts and engineering resources required to mitigate them. Despite …

Configuration validation with large language models

X Lian, Y Chen, R Cheng, J Huang, P Thakkar… - ar** study of security concepts for configurable data storages
R May, C Biermann, J Krüger, G Saake… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Most modern software systems can be configured to fulfill specific customer requirements,
adapting their behavior as required. However, such adaptations also increase the need to …

Unicorn: Reasoning about configurable system performance through the lens of causality

MS Iqbal, R Krishna, MA Javidian, B Ray… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Modern computer systems are highly configurable, with the total variability space sometimes
larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Understanding and reasoning about the …

Accuracy can lie: On the impact of surrogate model in configuration tuning

P Chen, J Gong, T Chen - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To ease the expensive measurements during configuration tuning, it is natural to build a
surrogate model as the replacement of the system, and thereby the configuration …

Static detection of silent misconfigurations with deep interaction analysis

J Zhang, R Piskac, E Zhai, T Xu - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The behavior of large systems is guided by their configurations: users set parameters in the
configuration file to dictate which corresponding part of the system code is executed …

Understanding and detecting on-the-fly configuration bugs

T Wang, Z Jia, S Li, S Zheng, Y Yu, E Xu… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software systems introduce an increasing number of configuration options to provide
flexibility, and support updating the options on the fly to provide persistent services. This …

Characterizing and detecting configuration compatibility issues in android apps

H Huang, M Wen, L Wei, Y Liu… - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
XML configuration files are widely used in Android to define an app's user interface and
essential runtime information such as system permissions. As Android evolves, it might …

Conftainter: Static taint analysis for configuration options

T Wang, H He, X Liu, S Li, Z Jia, Y Jiang… - 2023 38th IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prevalence and severity of software configuration-induced issues have driven the
design and development of a number of detection and diagnosis techniques. Many of these …