• Andre van Hoorn
• Armin Möbius
• Wilhelm Hasselbring
• Thomas F. Düllmann
• Reiner Jung

1. Presentations/demonstrations/discussions today

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

b. Upcoming

• <add items>

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.13 upcoming for April 1, 2016 SUGGESTION: Nov 4, 2016 (i.e., just in time for the symposium)
  • TODO: Setup Agile board in Confluence and assign tickets to the release.
  • What should/could be changed for the release (need to revisit the tickets for sure!)
    
    • Update libraries
    • Java 6 → Java 7/8? KIEK-1411 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    • Extract integration tests
    • Retire WebGUI
• Pushing Kieker 2.0: Is April 1 realistic? (Note that the plan is to have TeaTime integrated!)

4. Status of Current Activities

MISC

• Web site: KIEK-1421 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Kieker Eclipse-Plugin (by Hannes Strubel and Florian Echterkamp) for profiling and visualizing in the development process
  
  • Plugin is being finalized; will be submitted as paper to the SSP 16

a. Web Site/Trac

• Blog
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Nils on Trace UI

b. Web GUI

• Roadmap -> towards an Open APM Tool?
• Cockpit/Display concept
• Web cast?
• Feature wish: built-in support for APM, profiling etc. (example projects?)

c. TeeTime as P&F framework

• Current migration state available at  gitlab
  • Sören Henning: Migration of Kieker Trace Analysis
  • Lars E. Blümke: Migration of Kieker filters to TeeTime stages

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects/Collaborations

• Declare
• diagnoseIT
• Hora
• iObserve
• PubFlow
• SPEC RG DevOps Performance WG

Study Theses

• Open: List of possible topics

• Recently completed (since last meeting):
  • ...
  • Please include recently completed theses here and announce them via the kieker-research list

• Running:
  • (Stuttgart) Thomas Düllmann, Change-Aware Performance Anomaly Detection in Microservice Architectures. 2016. Master’s Thesis
    • Evaluation example: microservice-based versions of MediaStore/CoCoME
  • (Stuttgart) Sebastian Frank, Handling Tradeoffs in Architecture-Based Performance Optimization. 2016. Bachelor’s Thesis
  • (Stuttgart) Tobias Angerstein, Categorizing Performance Problems in Execution Traces, 2016. Bachelor’s Thesis
  • (Stuttgart) Fabian Keller, Performance Awareness in a Language Workbench, 2016. Master’s Thesis
  • (Stuttgart) Alper Hidiroglu, Rule-Based Performance Anti-Pattern Detection from Execution Traces, 2016. Bachelor's Thesis
  • (Stuttgart) Tobias Angerstein, Jonathan Göggel, Frederik Riedel. Towards a Peformance-Aware Continuous Delivery. 2016, Special Research Software Engineering (Fachstudie)
  • (Stuttgart) Alexander Bran, Alper Hidiroglu, and Manuel Palenga. Assessing the Interoperability of APM Trace Formats. 2016, Special Research Software Engineering (Fachstudie)
  • (Stuttgart) Matthias Blohm, Maksim Pahlberg, and Sebastian Vogel. Kieker-DQL Adapter. 2016, Process Analysis (Guided Research)
  • (Kiel) Hannes Strubel, Monitoring of Distributed Systems with Kieker, Master's Thesis
    • Evaluation example: CoCoME
  • (Kiel) Sören Henning, Visualization of Performance Anomalies with Kieker, Bachelor's Thesis
    • Pure Java solution as alternative to the current dependency on the R server
    • Visualizations embedded in Kieker distribution
  • (Kiel) Daniel Schmidt,  Monitoring Javascript-Applications with Kieker, Master's Thesis
  • (Kiel) Enno Martin Schwanke, On Improving Kieker's Monitoring Records in terms of Data Collecting and Modularization, Master's Thesis
    • Pre-allocated records to relieve the GC and thus to improve the performance
    • Record composition instead of inheritance to improve the reusability and the performance
  • (Kiel) Gunnar Dittrich, Extraction of User Behavior Profiles for Software Modernization, Master's Thesis  
    • Monitors and visualizes sessions, business processes, screenflows, and views
      

Student Projects

• Recently completed (since last meeting):
  • Please include recently completed projects here and announce them via the kieker-research list

• Running:
  • (Kiel) Mathis Neumann, Christoph Dornieden. Visualization of Runtime Models for iObserve (Masterprojekt)
    
    • Evaluation of technologies for a web based interface
    • Realization of a landscape view with attached time series displays as a microservice

• Upcoming:
  • ...

8. Tagged Tickets

• Adding the keyword discussInMeeting to a ticket lets it appear here.
• Tagged tickets: Tickets to (re)discuss

7. Misc

• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• 2016-11-07 F2F SSP 16 Kiel