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ASE 2019
Sun 10 - Fri 15 November 2019 San Diego, California, United States
Wed 13 Nov 2019 13:40 - 14:00 at Hillcrest - Configurations and Variability Chair(s): Shin Hwei Tan

Complex software systems often provide a large number of parameters so that users can configure them for their specific application scenarios. However, configuration tuning requires a deep understanding of the software system, far beyond the abilities of typical system users. To address this issue, many existing approaches focus on exploring and learning good performance estimation models. The accuracy of such models often suffers when the number of available samples is small, a thorny challenge under a given tuning-time constraint. By contrast, we hypothesize that good configurations often share certain hidden structures. Therefore, instead of trying to improve the performance estimation of a given configuration, we focus on capturing the hidden structures of good configurations and utilizing such learned structure to generate potentially better configurations. We propose ACTGAN to achieve this goal. We have implemented and evaluated ACTGAN using 17 workloads with eight different software systems. Experimental results show that ACTGAN outperforms default configurations by 76.22% on average, and six state-of-the-art configuration tuning algorithms by 6.58%-64.56%. Furthermore, the ACTGAN-generated configurations are often better than those used in training and show certain features consisting with domain knowledge, both of which supports our hypothesis.

Wed 13 Nov

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13:40 - 15:20
Configurations and VariabilityJournal First Presentations / Research Papers at Hillcrest
Chair(s): Shin Hwei Tan
13:40
20m
Talk
ACTGAN: Automatic Configuration Tuning for Software Systems with Generative Adversarial Networks
Research Papers
Liang Bao School of Computer Science and Technology, XiDian University, Xin Liu Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Fangzheng Wang School of Computer Science and Technology, XiDian University, Baoyin Fang School of Computer Science and Technology, XiDian University
14:00
20m
Talk
Automated N-way Program Merging for Facilitating Family-Based Analyses of Variant-Rich Software
Journal First Presentations
Dennis Reuling Software Engineering Group, University of Siegen, Udo Kelter Software Engineering Group, University of Siegen, Johannes Bürdek TU Darmstadt, Real-time Systems Lab, Malte Lochau TU Darmstadt
Link to publication DOI
14:20
20m
Talk
V2: Fast Detection of Configuration Drift in Python
Research Papers
Eric Horton North Carolina State University, Chris Parnin NCSU
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
Feature-Interaction Aware Configuration Prioritization for Configurable Code
Research Papers
Son Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Hoan Anh Nguyen Amazon, Ngoc Tran University of Texas at Dallas, Hieu Tran The University of Texas at Dallas, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
15:00
20m
Talk
Search-based test case implantation for testing untested configurations
Journal First Presentations
Dipesh Pradhan Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tao Yue Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Simula Research Laboratory, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Lab, Marius Liaaen Cisco Systems
Link to publication