Meeting Thu, May 16, 2013 @ 10.00-11.30h (time zone: CEST/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

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List of Participants

• André (Remote)
• Jan
• Nils
• Teerat (Remote)
• Peer
• Tom (Remote)
• Benjamin H.
• Reiner
• Pascal
• Willi (remote)

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• Restructuring of user guide (#560)
• Pascal + Reiner: Status Kieker Bridge (#798)

2. Kieker @ XY

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

•  SPEC RG LinkedIn group (feel free to join)

b. Upcoming

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.7 released on April 17, 2013
• Kieker 1.8 scheduled for October 17, 2013
• Hotlist:
  • Restructure user guide (#560)
  • Integration of OPAD/TSLib (#557/#558)
  • Integration of data bridge (#798)
  • ...
• Weekly (low overhead) developer telcos (limited to 1h)?

4. Status of Current Activities

a. Web Site/Trac

• Blog
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Publication process?
• Idea: Page for teaching activities (student projects?)
• Live demo #500

b. Web GUI

• Cockpit/Display concept
• Feature wish: built-in support for APM, profiling etc. (example projects?)
• user guide chapter for Web GUI

c. OPAD/TSLib

• Documentation to be included in user guide
• Trac page (to be filled): wiki:opad
• Trac page for tslib?
• To be moved (reusable components) to Kieker core distribution (in progress)
  • TSLib #557
  • OPAD #558
• Issue: license of CEP engine
• Possible integration of Nicolas's work (Descartes, KIT;  Kieker Days slides)

d. Data Bridge

• Integration (#798)

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects

• PubFlow
• iObserve

Study Theses

• Open: List of possible topics
• Running:
  • tfr: "Architecture Based Multivariate Anomaly Detection for Software Systems" (Master's thesis)
  • nie: "Development of a Concurrent and Distributed Pipes and Filters Analysis Framework for Kieker" (Master's thesis)
  • tsj: "Adaptive Monitoring of Perl Applications with Kieker" (Master's thesis)
• Upcoming:
  • bha: "Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Plugin-based Java Applciations with Kieker" aka "Kieker in Space" (Master's thesis)
  • jbey: "Technology Evaluation for the Communication between the Monitoring and Analysis Component in Kieker" (Bachelor's thesis)
  • mass: "Comparing the Performance of different Monitoring Frameworks with Micro-Benchmarks" (Bachelor's thesis)
  • mko: "Tracking User Actions for the Web-based Frontend of ExplorViz" (Bachelor's thesis)
  • flb: "Reconstruction of Workflows with the Help of Kieker Monitoring Records" (Bachelor's thesis)

Student Projects

Summer 13:

• CAU:
  •  Master's project "Kieker in the Cloud"
• RSS:
  •  Master's development project "A Repository-Based Software Analytics Platform"
    • Ecore-based system model
    • CEP
    • TSLib/OPAD
    • Web-based visualizations
  • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien") Software Engineering
    •  Evaluation of Java Monitoring Tools (in collaboration with  NovaTec)
    •  Evaluation of Java Profiling Tools (in collaboration with  NovaTec)

6. Misc

• Update poster
• Kieker Days 2013
• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• Thu, June 20, 2013 @ 10.00-11.30h (time zone: CEST/Berlin time)