- author = "Jifeng Xuan and Yongfeng Gu and Zhilei Ren and Xiangyang Jia and Qingna Fan",
- title = "Genetic Configuration Sampling: Learning a Sampling Strategy for Fault Detection of Configurable Systems",
- booktitle = "5th edition of GI @ GECCO 2018",
- year = "2018",
- editor = "Brad Alexander and Saemundur O. Haraldsson and Markus Wagner and John R. Woodward and Shin Yoo",
- pages = "1624--1631",
- address = "Kyoto, Japan",
- month = "15-19 " # jul,
- organisation = "ACM SIGEvo",
- publisher = "ACM",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic improvement, SBSE, Configuration sampling, fault detection, highly-configurable systems, software configurations",
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URL = "
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/gecco-gi-2018/papers/genetic_configuration_sampling.pdf",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1145/3205651.3208267",
- size = "8 pages",
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abstract = "A highly-configurable system provides many
configuration options to diversify application
scenarios. The combination of these configuration
options results in a large search space of
configurations. This makes the detection of
configuration-related faults extremely hard. Since it
is infeasible to exhaust every configuration, several
methods are proposed to sample a subset of all
configurations to detect hidden faults. Configuration
sampling can be viewed as a process of repeating a
pre-defined sampling action to the whole search space,
such as the one-enabled or pair-wise strategy.
we propose genetic configuration sampling, a new method of learning a sampling strategy for configuration-related faults. Genetic configuration sampling encodes a sequence of sampling actions as a chromosome in the genetic algorithm. Given a set of known configuration-related faults, genetic configuration sampling evolves the sequence of sampling actions and applies the learnt sequence to new configuration data. A pilot study on three highly-configurable systems shows that genetic configuration sampling performs well among nine sampling strategies in comparison.",
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notes = "Apache, BusyBox, Linux
'compiler Gcc 7.3 contains 2472 configuration options'
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/gecco-gi-2018/cfp.html",
