FeaturePlugin: feature modeling plug-in for Eclipse
eclipse '04 Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
A study of the Linux kernel evolution
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Automated Diagnosis of Product-Line Configuration Errors in Feature Models
SPLC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International Software Product Line Conference
Modeling and Building Software Product Lines with Pure: :Variants
SPLC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International Software Product Line Conference
FeatureIDE: A tool framework for feature-oriented software development
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
S.P.L.O.T.: software product lines online tools
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Information and Software Technology
SAT-based analysis of feature models is easy
Proceedings of the 13th International Software Product Line Conference
Variability modeling in the real: a perspective from the operating systems domain
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
A formal semantics for feature cardinalities in feature diagrams
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
A comparison of decision modeling approaches in product lines
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
A systematic review of evaluation of variability management approaches in software product lines
Information and Software Technology
An empirical study on configuration errors in commercial and open source systems
SOSP '11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Generating range fixes for software configuration
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
A qualitative study on user guidance capabilities in product configuration tools
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
A survey of variability modeling in industrial practice
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
Automated diagnosis of software configuration errors
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
ConfDiagnoser: an automated configuration error diagnosis tool for Java software
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
SmartFixer: fixing software configurations based on dynamic priorities
Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference
Report on the international symposium on high confidence software (ISHCS 2011/2012)
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
The anatomy of a sales configurator: an empirical study of 111 cases
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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Operating systems expose sophisticated configurability to handle variability in hardware platforms like mobile devices, desktops, and servers. The variability model of an operating system kernel like Linux contains thousands of options guarded by hundreds of complex constraints. To guide users throughout the configuration and ensure the validity of their decisions, specialized tools known as configurators have been developed. Despite these tools, configuration still remains a difficult and challenging process. To better understand the challenges faced by users during configuration, we conducted two surveys, one among Linux users and another among eCos users. This paper presents the results of the surveys along three dimensions: configuration practice; user guidance; and language expressiveness. We hope that these results will help researchers and tool builders focus their efforts to improve tool support for software configuration.