Meeting Tue, May 06, 2014 @ 10:00-11:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

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List of Participants

• André
• Willi
• Jan
• Reiner
• Nils
• Florian
• Thomas

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• Please make suggestions for possible presentations in future meetings'''

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

• Kieker talk by Willi at SH

b. Upcoming

• Kieker lecture in Pavia, Italy

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.9
  • Lessons learned from the relase creation
• Kieker 1.10 scheduled for Oct 1, 2014
  • Moved release dates to beginning of months (e.g., 1.10 on Oct 1 instead of Oct 16); reason: start of lecture periods

4. Status of Current Activities

a. Web Site/Trac

• Integration of non-CAU+non-external theses/publications to the eprints/web site.
• Blog
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Blog entry on CAU developement project (draft in German provided by M.-C. Ott) -> #1271 (nie triggers)
  • Blog entry on RSS development project -> #1272 (Thomas)
  • Publication process?
• Integration of Kieker blog into SE blog [done]
• Page for teaching activities #1102
• Live demo #500, #1109

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?)
• Automatic regression tests in CI #1094

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

• PubFlow
• iObserve
• Ensure
• Hora
• (RG ESPM 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
  • <none>

• Running:
  • bjw: "Evaluation of Trace Reduction Techniques for Online Trace Visualization Utilizing Kieker" (MSc)
  • jwe: "Delphi intrumentation" (Dipl)
  • ??: <Theses supervised by pcb>
  • (RSS/US): Bachelor's thesis on dynamic instrumentation/adaptive monitoring using (runtime) bytecode engineering with Kieker
• Upcoming:

Student Projects

• Recently completed (since last meeting):
  • Please include recently completed projects here and announce them via the kieker-research list
  • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien") Software Engineering
    •  Integration of Performance Testing in CI environments (in collaboration with  Adesso AG)
  • Master Process Analysis
    •  Analysis of Performance Testing Processes (in collaboration with  Adesso AG)

• 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. Misc

• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• Wed June 4, 2014 @ 10:00

Topics for future meetings

• Kieker/Palladio Days 2014: Ideas list
• 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