Abstract The Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS) is a set of measures of the
severity of software security configuration issues. CCSS is derived from CVSS, which was …

The variability of configurable systems may lead to configuration-related issues (ie, faults
and warnings) that appear only when we select certain configuration options. Previous …

Continuous integration and deployment are established paradigms in modern software
engineering. Both intend to ensure the quality of software products and to automate the …

The properties of clouds--elasticity, pay-per-use, and standardization of the runtime
infrastructure--enable cloud providers and users alike to benefit from economies of scale …

Modern cloud applications consist of software components deployed on multiple virtual
machines. Deploying such applications is error prone and requires detailed system …

Failure of application operations is one of the main causes of system-wide outages in cloud
environments. This particularly applies to DevOps operations, such as backup …

The rise of elastically scaling applications that frequently deploy new machines has led to
the adoption of DevOps practices across the cloud engineering stack. So-called …

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are frequently reused in software to reduce development cost
and the time to market. However, external library dependencies may introduce …

Determining whether a configurable software system has a performance bug or it was
misconfigured is often challenging. While there are numerous debugging techniques that …

Intensive dependencies of a Java project on third-party libraries can easily lead to the
presence of multiple library or class versions on its classpath. When this happens, JVM will …