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ICSE 2021
Mon 17 May - Sat 5 June 2021

Performance-influence models can help stakeholders understand how and where configuration options and their interactions influence the performance of a system. With this understanding, stakeholders can debug performance behavior and make deliberate configuration decisions. Current black-box techniques to build such models combine various sampling and learning strategies, resulting in tradeoffs between measurement effort, accuracy, and interpretability. We present Comprex, a white-box approach to build performance-influence models for configurable systems, combining insights of local measurements, dynamic taint analysis to track options in the implementation, compositionality, and compression of the configuration space, without relying on machine learning to extrapolate incomplete samples. Our evaluation on 4 widely-used, open-source projects demonstrates that Comprex builds similarly accurate performance-influence models to the most accurate and expensive black-box approach, but at a reduced cost and with additional benefits from interpretable and local models.

Fri 28 May

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

15:05 - 16:05
4.3.2. Performance Modeling of Highly Configurable Software SystemsTechnical Track / Journal-First Papers at Blended Sessions Room 2 +12h
Chair(s): Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland Baltimore County
15:05
20m
Paper
White-Box Performance-Influence Models: A Profiling and Learning ApproachArtifact ReusableTechnical TrackArtifact Available
Technical Track
Max Weber Leipzig University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University
Pre-print Media Attached
15:25
20m
Paper
White-Box Analysis over Machine Learning: Modeling Performance of Configurable SystemsTechnical Track
Technical Track
Miguel Velez Carnegie Mellon University, Pooyan Jamshidi University of South Carolina, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print Media Attached
15:45
20m
Paper
ConEx: Efficient Exploration of Big-Data System Configurations for Better PerformanceJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Rahul Krishna Columbia University, USA, Chong Tang Microsoft, Kevin Sullivan University of Virginia, Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, USA
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached

Sat 29 May

Displayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change

03:05 - 04:05
4.3.2. Performance Modeling of Highly Configurable Software SystemsTechnical Track / Journal-First Papers at Blended Sessions Room 2
03:05
20m
Paper
White-Box Performance-Influence Models: A Profiling and Learning ApproachArtifact ReusableTechnical TrackArtifact Available
Technical Track
Max Weber Leipzig University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University
Pre-print Media Attached
03:25
20m
Paper
White-Box Analysis over Machine Learning: Modeling Performance of Configurable SystemsTechnical Track
Technical Track
Miguel Velez Carnegie Mellon University, Pooyan Jamshidi University of South Carolina, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print Media Attached
03:45
20m
Paper
ConEx: Efficient Exploration of Big-Data System Configurations for Better PerformanceJournal-First
Journal-First Papers
Rahul Krishna Columbia University, USA, Chong Tang Microsoft, Kevin Sullivan University of Virginia, Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, USA
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached