Localizing configurations in highly-configurable systems

• DOI: 10.1145/3233027.3236404
• Publication Date: 2018-09-20T08:37:00Z
• Authors: Paul Gazzillo; Ugur Koc; ThanhVu Nguyen; Shiyi Wei
• Keywords: Configurations; Testing; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Program analysis; 02 engineering and technology; Variability

The complexity of configurable systems has grown immensely, and it is only getting more complex. Such are a challenge for software testing maintenance, because bugs other defects can do appear in any configuration. One common requirement many development tasks to identify the configurations that lead given defect or some program behavior. We distill this down question: location source file, what valid include location? key obstacle scalability. When there thousands configuration options, enumerating all combinations exponential infeasible. provide set target programs increasing difficulty variations on question so submitters experience levels try out solutions. Our hope engage community stimulate new interesting approaches problem analyzing configurations.