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Query: The Interaction between Inputs and Configurations fed to Software
  Systems: an Empirical Study   Widely used software systems such as video encoders are by necessity highly
configurable, with hundreds or even thousands of options to choose from. Their
users often have a hard time finding suitable values for these options (i.e.
finding a proper configuration of the software system) to meet their goals for
the tasks at hand, e.g. compress a video down to a certain size. One dimension
of the problem is of course that performance depends on the input data: a video
as input to an encoder like x264 or a file system fed to a tool like xz. To
achieve good performance, users should therefore take into account both
dimensions of (1) software variability and (2) input data. In this
problem-statement paper, we conduct a large study over 8 configurable systems
that quantifies the existing interactions between input data and configurations
of software systems. The results exhibit that (1) inputs fed to software
systems interact with their configuration options in non monotonous ways,
significantly impacting their performance properties (2) tuning a software
system for its input data makes it possible to multiply its performance by up
to ten (3) input variability can jeopardize the relevance of performance
predictive models for a field deployment.

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