A critical aspect of software development, build reproducibility, ensures the dependability,
security, and maintainability of software systems. Although several factors, including the …

Software product line (SPL) systems are widely employed to develop industrial projects. For
an SPL system, different products/variants are created by combining different subsets of the …

In the present work, efforts have been made to create a configuration-based approach to
knowledge extraction. The notion of granularity is developed, which allows fine-tuning the …

Software products have many configurations to meet different environments and diverse
needs. Building software with multiple software configurations typically incurs high costs in …

A long continuous integration (CI) build forces developers to wait for CI feedback before
starting subsequent development activities, leading to time wasted. In addition to a variety of …

Zusammenfassung Problemdomäne Die Standardkonfiguration von Software ist aus
verschiedenen Grunden unsicherer als möglich, z. B. weil der Softwarehersteller bei der …

Insecure default values in software settings can be exploited by attackers to compromise the
system that runs the software. As a countermeasure, there exist security-configuration …

ABSTRACT MAHDAVI HEZAVEH, REZVAN. A Comprehensive Model of Software
Configuration.(Under the direction of Dr. Laurie Williams). Using feature toggles is a …

Software applications are built by teams of developers that constantly iterate over the
codebase. Software projects rely on a build system, which handles the management of …

Software engineers are acutely aware that the build of software is an essential but resource-
intensive step in any software development process. This is especially true when building …