Meeting Fri, April 04, 2014 @ 10:00-11:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

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List of Participants

• André
• Teerat
• Anton
• Yannic
• Florian
• Willi
• Henry
• Peer
• Nils
• Björn

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• [30 Min]  Development project US/RSS: Online Performance Problem Detection, Diagnosis, and Visualization with Kieker (Summary of Results)

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

• ICPE '14 wrap-up
  • Tutorial

b. Upcoming

• GPL audit tool + results
• How to provide more end-user friendliness? (e.g., pre packaged downloads, without programming) -> ticket
• SPEC RG WG on Enterprise Software Performance Management
• ICPE 2015:  http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu/

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.9 scheduled for April 16, 2014
• Hotlist for upcoming release:
  • Release preparation process (especially testing)
  • Restructure user guide (#560)
  • Integration of OPAD/TSLib (#557/#558)
  • ...

4. Status of Current Activities

a. Web Site/Trac

• Blog
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Publication process?
• Integration of Kieker blog into SE blog?
• Page for teaching activities #1102
• Live demo #500, #1109

b. Web GUI

• 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
• Possible integration of Nicolas's work (Descartes, KIT;  Kieker Days slides)

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects

• PubFlow
• iObserve
• Ensure
• Hora

Study Theses

• Open: List of possible topics

• Completed (since last meeting):
  • <none>

• Running:
  • bjw: "Evaluation of Trace Reduction Techniques for Online Trace Visualization Utilizing Kieker" (MSc)
  • sma: "C instrumentation" (MSc)
  • jwe: "Delphi intrumentation" (Dipl)
  • mzl: "Kieker Benchmarks in Jenkins" (BSc)
  • pst: "Scalable and Live Trace Processing in the Cloud" (BSc)
  • ??: <Thesis supervised by pcb>

• Upcoming:
  • (RSS/US): Adaptive monitoring using bytecode engineering

Student Projects

Recently completed:

• Master's development project
  •  Online Performance Problem Detection, Diagnosis, and Visualization with Kieker

Running:

• RSS:
  • 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)

Upcoming:

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

6. Misc

• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• Tue May 6, 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