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the excess of configuration parameters in system software that users rarely change, which adds complexity and errors.

In software engineering, configuration over-design refers to the excess of configuration parameters in system software that users rarely change, which adds complexity and errors. This meaning comes from Xu (2015) in Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering.[1]

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Xu, T., Jin, L., Fan, X., Zhou, Y., Pasupathy, S., & Talwadker, R. (2015). Hey, you have given me too many knobs!: understanding and dealing with over-designed configuration in system software. Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/2786805.2786852

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