Print Email Facebook Twitter Studying bugs in the Salt Configuration Management System Title Studying bugs in the Salt Configuration Management System Author He, Bryan (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Spinellis, D. (mentor) Sotiropoulos, Thodoris (mentor) Broz, F. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science and Engineering Project CSE3000 Research Project Date 2022-06-22 Abstract Configuration management systems are a class of software used to automate system administrative tasks, one of which is the configuration of software systems. Although the automation is less error-prone than manual configuration done by a human, bugs in the source code can still cause configuration errors. This can result into unwanted consequences for the managed software system, some examples are performance degradation, downtime and security breaches.Bug studies are conducted on previously reported bugs to find out their characteristics. Such findings help with preventing, detecting and fixing bugs, which ultimately causes software to become more reliable. This paper aims to fill in a research gap in the literature surrounding bug studies conducted on configuration management systems. From Salt, a widely used open-source configuration management system, a data-set of 5,896 bugs with fixes was collected. The main research question answered by this paper is ``What are the common patterns can be extracted from bugs found in Salt?'' To answer this, 100 bugs were randomly sampled from this data-set to analyze their symptoms, root causes, impact, fixes, system-dependence and triggers. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:09e66de0-282a-41ca-9857-0cab09f48b2b Part of collection Student theses Document type bachelor thesis Rights © 2022 Bryan He Files PDF Studying_bugs_in_the_Salt ... _He_1_.pdf 401.62 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:09e66de0-282a-41ca-9857-0cab09f48b2b/datastream/OBJ/view