Meeting Wed, July 02, 2014 @ 10:00-11:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

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List of Participants

• Andre
• Jan
• Reiner
• Christian
• Florian
• Willi

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• C. Zirkelbach [15-20 min]: Eprints monitoring/analysis with Kieker (postponed again; next meeting in August?)
• R. Jung [15-20 min]: Record Language Demo
• Please make suggestions for possible presentations in future meetings'''

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

• Talk by Florian on EPrints visualization with ExplorViz and 3D plotting (June 6, 2014 via  https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/hasselbring)
• Talk by Sebastien on EPrints (incl. monitoring with Kieker) @  Repositories 2014, June 9-13, Helsinki, Finland

b. Upcoming

• ...

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.10 scheduled for Oct 1, 2014

4. Status of Current Activities

> MISC

• Procedure for "retired" developers (according to wiki:DevGuide/InitNewAndRemoveOldDeveloper) #1321
• TeeTime as P&F framework

a. Web Site/Trac

• Live demo updates
• Blog
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Blog entry on RSS development project -> #1272 (Thomas)
  • Blog entry on Eprints by C. Zirkelbach?
• Page for teaching activities #1102
• Update of features page (+ figures in presentations), suggestions Willi:
  • Data Bridge + DiSL probe (Probes/Samplers)
  • Binary monitoring writers/readers (Writers/Readers)
  • TSLib, OPAD (Performance Analysis)
  • Coloring, Trace Analysis GUI (Architecture reconstruction)
  • ExplorViz (Architecture Reconstruction)

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. 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
• Integration of Nicolas's work (Descartes, KIT;  Kieker Days slides): #1265

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects/Collaborations

• PubFlow
• iObserve
• Ensure
• Hora
• New SPEC RG WG (tentative name "DevOps Performance", maybe with changed order of words)
  • Fri July 11, 2014 (15:00-16:00 CEST): Talk on SPECj + incl. extraction for Java EE (A. Brunnert, fortiss)
  • Fri July 25, 2014 (15:00-16:00 CEST): Talk on Resource Demand Estimation (S. Spinner, U Wuerzburg)
  • ...
• Collaboration on AIM (dynamic/adaptive instrumentation)
• EPrints
  • Sebastian Francois (EPrints Services) plans to make the code for instrumenting EPrints with Kieker publicly available at  https://github.com/eprints/epkieker (Link, references page?). -> #1310

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:
  • jwe: "Delphi intrumentation" (Dipl)
  • ??: <Theses supervised by pcb>
  • A. Flaig: Dynamic instrumentation/adaptive monitoring using runtime bytecode engineering with Kieker (BSc)
• Upcoming:

Student Projects

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

• Running:
  • RSS:
    • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien")
      •  Evaluation of tools for performance data analysis and visualization (in collaboration with Capgemini)
    • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien")
      •  Evaluation of tools for load testing (in collaboration with NovaTec)

• Upcoming:
  • ...

6. Kieker/Palladio Days 2014

• Tentative dates:
  • Internal meeting: Nov Wed 26, 2014 (afternoon)
  • Main program: Nov, Thu 27 (morning!) to Fri 28, 2014 (around noon)
• Venu (XY, Stuttgart), submission format ...
• Possible contributions
• Ideas list
• Web site updates:  http://www.kieker-palladio-days.org/

7. Misc

• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• Wed, Aug 6, 2014 @ 10-11:30 CEST

Topics for future meetings

• Reiner (monitoring C programs)
• Christian, Nils (restructuring analysis (asynchronous; buffers), (not)use of EMF for analysis configurations) -> Kieker/Palladio Days?
• Create SIGs?
  • e.g., to coordinate/consolidate distributed efforts on common topics)
  • They may be permanent or temporary
  • Example SIGs
    • Kieker.APM
      • Web UI
      • Anomaly detection
      • Distributed tracing
      • Adaptive instrumentation
      • Self-*
    • Benchmarking
    • Performance testing (incl. CI env.)
    • Model extraction/architecture discovery
    • Visualization
    • Usability
    • Analysis framework
    • Model-driven instrumentation and analysis
    • ...
  • Could associate tickets with SIGs
  • Trac/Web site for SIG with roadmap w.r.t. planned Kieker features in this area
  • May include non-Kieker associates which are specialists in this field