Performance is arguably the most crucial attribute that reflects the quality of a configurable
software system. However, given the increasing scale and complexity of modern software …

In recent years, configuration errors (ie, misconfigurations) have become one of the
dominant causes of system failures, resulting in many severe service outages and …

An ever increasing number of configuration parameters are provided to system users. But
many users have used one configuration setting across different workloads, leaving …

Continuous integration (CI) systems automate the compilation, building, and testing of
software. Despite CI being a widely used activity in software engineering, we do not know …

Configurable software systems are prone to configuration errors, resulting in significant
losses to companies. However, diagnosing these errors is challenging due to the vast and …

Early detection is the key to minimizing failure damage induced by configuration errors,
especially those errors in configurations that control failure handling and fault tolerance …

Finding good configurations of a software system is often challenging since the number of
configuration options can be large. Software engineers often make poor choices about …

Nowadays, security incidents have become a familiar" nuisance," and they regularly lead to
the exposure of private and sensitive data. The root causes for such incidents are rarely …

Modern software systems provide many configuration options which significantly influence
their non-functional properties. To understand and predict the effect of configuration options …

Configurable software systems provide a multitude of configuration options to adjust and
optimize their functional and non-functional properties. For instance, to find the fastest …