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 …

A large percentage of real-world software configuration issues, such as misconfigurations,
involve multiple interdependent configuration parameters. However, existing techniques and …

Many techniques were proposed for detecting software misconfigurations in cloud systems
and for diagnosing unintended behavior caused by such misconfigurations. Detection and …

Access control is often reported to be" profoundly broken" in real-world practices due to
prevalent policy misconfigurations introduced by system administrators (sysadmins). Given …

Dockerfile plays an important role in the Docker-based software development process, but
many Dockerfile codes are infected with smells in practice. Understanding the occurrence of …

Distributed systems pose unique challenges for software developers. Understanding the
system's communication topology and reasoning about concurrent activities of system hosts …

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

This paper introduces the idea of mining container image repositories for configuration and
other deployment information of software systems. Unlike traditional software repositories …

Access-deny issues are hard to fix because it implies both availability and security
requirements. On one hand, system administrators (sysadmins) need to make a change …