Developers rely on regression testing in their continuous integration (CI) environment to find
changes that introduce regression faults. While regression testing is widely practiced, it can …

Reducing energy consumption of software is an increasingly important objective, and there
has been extensive research for data centers, smartphones, and embedded systems …

Feature flags for continuous deployment and configuration options for customizing software
share many similarities, both conceptually and technically. However, neither academic nor …

Modern software applications are increasingly configurable, which puts a burden on users to
tune these configurations for their target hardware and workloads. To help users, machine …

Learning and predicting the performance of a configurable software system helps to provide
better quality assurance. One important engineering decision therein is how to encode the …

The usage of empirical methods has grown common in software engineering. This trend
spawned hundreds of publications, whose results are helping to understand and improve …

Logging components are an integral element of software systems. These logging
components receive the logging requests generated by the logging code and process these …

System failures resulting from configuration errors are one of the major reasons for the
compromised reliability of today's software systems. Although many techniques have been …

Distributed message systems (DMSs) serve as the communication backbone for many real-
time streaming data processing applications. To support the vast diversity of such …

Understanding the influence of configuration options on performance is key for finding
optimal system configurations, system understanding, and performance debugging. In prior …