Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs
PLDI '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1988 conference on Programming Language design and Implementation
Dynamically discovering likely program invariants to support program evolution
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Precise dynamic slicing algorithms
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Predicting problems caused by component upgrades
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Scalable statistical bug isolation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Configuration debugging as search: finding the needle in the haystack
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
Automatic misconfiguration troubleshooting with peerpressure
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
Dytan: a generic dynamic taint analysis framework
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
AutoBash: improving configuration management with operating system causality analysis
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Configuration-aware regression testing: an empirical study of sampling and prioritization
ISSTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Using causality to diagnose configuration bugs
ATC'08 USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference on Annual Technical Conference
Effective identification of failure-inducing changes: a hybrid approach
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Self-Repair through Reconfiguration: A Requirements Engineering Approach
ASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Automating configuration troubleshooting with dynamic information flow analysis
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Selecting peers for execution comparison
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Combined static and dynamic automated test generation
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Using feature locality: can we leverage history to avoid failures during reconfiguration?
Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Assurances for self-adaptive systems
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
A user survey of configuration challenges in Linux and eCos
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
Precomputing possible configuration error diagnoses
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Generating range fixes for software configuration
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
ConfDiagnoser: an automated configuration error diagnosis tool for Java software
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
ACM SIGOPS 24th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Do not blame users for misconfigurations
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
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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 technique (and its tool implementation, called ConfDiagnoser) to identify the root cause of a configuration error a single configuration option that can be changed to produce desired behavior. Our technique uses static analysis, dynamic profiling, and statistical analysis to link the undesired behavior to specific configuration options. It differs from existing approaches in two key aspects: it does not require users to provide a testing oracle (to check whether the software functions correctly) and thus is fully-automated; and it can diagnose both crashing and non-crashing errors. We evaluated ConfDiagnoser on 5 non-crashing configuration errors and 9 crashing configuration errors from 5 configurable software systems written in Java. On average, the root cause was ConfDiagnosers fifth-ranked suggestion; in 10 out of 14 errors, the root cause was one of the top 3 suggestions; and more than half of the time, the root cause was the first suggestion.