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 …

Configuration bugs are among the dominant causes of software failures. Software
organizations often use bug tracking systems to manage bug reports collected from …

Performance bugs are often hard to detect due to their non fail-stop symptoms. Existing
debugging techniques can only detect performance bugs with known patterns (eg, inefficient …

The behavior of a software system often depends on how that system is configured. Small
configuration errors can lead to hard-to-diagnose undesired behaviors. We present a …

Software projects embrace variability to increase adaptability and to lower cost; however,
others blame variability for increasing complexity and making reasoning about programs …

The configuration of a system determines the system behavior and wrong configuration
settings can adversely impact system's availability, performance, and correctness. We refer …

Software failures due to configuration errors are commonplace as computer systems
continue to grow larger and more complex. Troubleshooting these configuration errors is a …

As software configurations continue to grow in complexity, misconfiguration has become one
of major causes of software failure. Software configuration errors can have catastrophic …

Unexpected interactions among features induce most bugs in a configurable software
system. Exhaustively analyzing all the exponential number of possible configurations is …

A large-scale system contains a huge configuration space because of its large number of
configuration parameters. This leads to a combination explosion among configuration …