The disclosed embodiments illustrate a composite navigational method and system for the automatic configuration management of application software by a computing server. The method includes extracting a plurality of previous configuration values from a storage device. The method further includes generating a plurality of abstract syntax trees (ASTs) based on parsing of the plurality of previous configuration values. The method further includes performing one or more pre-specified operations on the generated plurality of ASTs. The method further includes determining a configuration value of a current configuration parameter based on a navigation pattern, such as hierarchical navigation or variable-based filtering navigation. Further, the navigation pattern is determined using the performed one or more pre-specified operations, based on at least user preferences and the extracted plurality of previous configuration values. The method further comprising controlling the configuration of the application software based on the determined configuration value of the current configuration parameter.