A method includes receiving one or more project environment features of a project, identifying one or more relevant projects from a number of known projects by comparing the one or more project environment features of the project to one or more project environment features of each of the known projects, and generating at least a portion of a configuration file based on one or more configuration files from each of the one or more relevant projects. Identifying relevant projects from a number of known projects by comparing project environment features and subsequently using configuration files from the relevant projects to generate at least a portion of the configuration file allows for a robust configuration file to be created without effort on the part of a user.