Performance unpredictability is a major roadblock towards cloud adoption, and has
performance, cost, and revenue ramifications. Predictable performance is even more critical …

Serverless computing is a rapidly growing cloud application model, popularized by
Amazon's Lambda platform. Serverless cloud services provide fine-grained provisioning of …

In recent years there has been a noticeable shift in attention from those who use agile
software development toward lean software development, often labelled as a shift “from …

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

Configuration error injection testing (CEIT) could systematically evaluate software reliability
and diagnosability to runtime configuration errors. This paper explores the challenges and …

Performance-influence models can help stakeholders understand how and where
configuration options and their interactions influence the performance of a system. With this …

Large-scale cloud services deploy hundreds of configuration changes to production systems
daily. At such velocity, configuration changes have inevitably become prevalent causes of …

Inferring program transformations from concrete program changes has many potential uses,
such as applying systematic program edits, refactoring, and automated program repair …

Modern software systems are often equipped with hundreds to thousands of configurations,
many of which greatly affect performance. Unfortunately, properly setting these …

Modern computer systems are highly configurable, with the total variability space sometimes
larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Understanding and reasoning about the …