Meeting Mon, November 4, 2013 @ 15:00-16:30h (time zone: CEST/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

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List of Participants

• André
• Jan
• Nils
• Tom
• Peer
• Stefan Kaes
• Willi
• Reiner
• Björn
• Henry
• Arne
• Florian
• Christian

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• Tom Frotscher:  Architecture-Based Multivariate Anomaly Detection for Software Systems (Presentation of results)
• OPAD Hello World by Tom (developer meeting topic)

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

• Eprints (re)indexing
• Migration to GitLab
  • Incl. authorizations for Git-Repositories

b. Upcoming

•  Kieker/Palladio Days
  • 27.-29.11.2013 @FZI, Karlsruhe
  • Topics for developer day (Friday)
  • Please remember to  register''' + indicate whether you will attend the meetup talk
• GSoC '14
• Two industrial requests

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.8 released on October 16, 2013
• 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
  • new post
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Publication process?
• Idea: Page for teaching activities (student projects?)
• Live demo #500

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):
  • tfr: "Architecture Based Multivariate Anomaly Detection for Software Systems" (Master's thesis)

• Running:
  • bha: "Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Plugin-based Java Applications with Kieker" aka "Kieker in Space" (Master's thesis)
  • bjw: "Evaluation of Trace Reduction Techniques for Online Trace Visualization Utilizing Kieker" (MSc)
  • sma: "C instrumentation" (MSc)

• Upcoming:
  • jwe: "Delphi intrumentation" (Dipl)
  • mzl: "Kieker Benchmarks in Jenkins" (BSc)
  • pst: "Scalable and Live Trace Processing in the Cloud" (BSc)

Student Projects

Recently completed:

• ...

Running:

• RSS:
  • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien") Software Engineering
    •  Evaluation of Java Monitoring Tools (in collaboration with  NovaTec)
    •  Evaluation of Java Profiling Tools (in collaboration with  NovaTec)
    Final presentation of both groups on Fr. Nov. 22, 2013 @ 9-12h
    •  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)
  • Master's development project
    • "Kieker.APM"
• CAU:
  • Master's Project on Distributed Monitoring

6. Misc

• Update poster -> Kieker/Palladio Days!
• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• 2013/11/29: Developer meeting at Kieker/Palladio Days 2013
• t.b.d.

Topics for future meetings

• Reiner (monitoring C programs)
• Nils (restructuring analysis (asynchronous; buffers), (not)use of EMF for analysis configurations) -> Kieker/Palladio Days?