Tracking Load-Time Configuration Options

CONFIGEN: A tool for managing configuration options

This paper introduces CONFIGEN, a tool that helps modularizing software. CONFIGEN allows the developer to select a set of elementary components for his software through an interactive interface. Configuration files for use by C/assembly code and Makefiles are then automatically generated, and we successfully used it as a helper tool for complex system software refactoring. CONFIGEN is based on ...

Simulating testing environments with configuration options

A program is said to be configurable if it is implemented to accept parameters in order to function differently depending on the values of parameters. Such a parameter is called a configuration option, and an instance of all parameters together determine a configuration for the program. The test results data of a configurable software tends to be large. Consequently, making sense out of this da...

Tracking global wide configuration errors

Both honeypots and network telescopes are extremely powerful tools to analyze malicious network activities. In this paper we evaluate these two concepts by looking at data obtained from two such sources over a common time period. Our viewpoint is biased towards a network management perspective and we will present in this paper patterns and trends in misconfigured network devices. We will show t...

Initial Dynamic Load Estimates During Configuration

Dynamic analysis of aerospace systems is required to insure that the structures will maintain their integrity and provide predictable and acceptable mechanical performance throughout the mission profile of specified acceleration environments. This analysis includes the structural response to shock and vibration and evaluates the maximum deflections and material stresses and the potential for th...

Nonlinear Control Methodologies for Tracking Configuration Variables