Configuration options are widely used for customizing the behavior and initial settings of
software applications, server processes, and operating systems. Their distinctive property is …

Complex software packages, particularly systems software, often require substantial
customization before being used. Small mistakes in configuration can lead to hard …

Configuration errors are common in software systems, especially in cloud systems with
plenty of components and configuration files. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic …

Configuration errors account for 60% of today's system failures. These misconfigurations
cause the system to crash, hang or silently fail, forcing users to reach out to developers for …

Configuration errors are some of the main reasons for software failures. Some configuration
options may even negatively impact the software's security, so that if a user sets the options …

Software misconfigurations are responsible for a substantial part of today's system failures,
causing about one-quarter of all customer-reported issues. Identifying their root causes can …

Many programs use a key-value model for configuration options. We examined how this
model is used in seven open source Java projects totaling over a million lines of code. We …

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 …

Apache Hadoop system is a software framework with the capability to process large-scale
datasets across a cluster of distributed machines using MapReduce programming model …

Configuration frameworks are routinely used in software systems to change application
behavior without recompilation. Selecting a suitable configuration framework among the vast …