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2014-03-04

2014-03-04

Owned by Andre van Hoorn
Last updated: Jan 20, 2016

Meeting Tue, March 04, 2014 @ 16:00-17:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

List of Participants

  • André
  • Anton
  • Stefan Siegl
  • Jan
  • Nils
  • Jan
  • Willi
  • Florian
  • Reiner
  • Björn
  • Henry

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

  • 15:00: Final presentation master's project on distributed monitoring CAU
  • Anton Scherer: "JavaScript Monitoring"

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

b. Upcoming

  • ICPE '14 tutorial
  • GPL audit tool + results
  • How to provide more end-user friendliness? (e.g., pre packaged downloads, without programming) -> ticket
  • SPEC RG WG on Monitoring?

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

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects

  • PubFlow
  • iObserve
  • Ensure
  • Hora

Study Theses

  • 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 Project on Distributed Monitoring

Running:

Upcoming:

6. Misc

  • Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

Topics for future meetings

  • Kieker/Palladio Days 2014: Ideas list
  • Reiner (monitoring C programs)
  • 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