Meeting Thu, August 1, 2013 @ 10.00-11.30h (time zone: CEST/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

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List of Participants

• André (Remote)
• Jan
• Peer
• Reiner
• Nils
• Tom
• Björn
• Florian

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• jwa: web site updates
• rju: Kie*l*er Mail Reiner
  •  http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~uru/
  • Especially:
    • KlighDning_new.mp4 (general tool demo)
    • KlighDning_sync.mp4 (two browsers with a shared view on a model)
  • Added to #869

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

• Tool demo by NovaTec on Fr. July 19 @ 13-15h
• 2 Kieker papers on visualization
  •  http://eprints.uni-kiel.de/21839/
  •  http://eprints.uni-kiel.de/21840/
• Gitlab
  • User accounts in GitLab

b. Upcoming

• CoCoMe CS
• Kieker/Palladio Days 2013
  • Tentative Date: 27.-29.11.2013 @FZI, Karlsruhe (maybe 1-2 weeks later)

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.8 scheduled for October 17, 2013
• Hotlist:
  • Restructure user guide (#560)
  • Integration of OPAD/TSLib (#557/#558)
  • Integration of data bridge (#798)
  • ...

4. Status of Current Activities

a. Web Site/Trac

• #1021: redesign web site?
• Embed  (Google) Calendar?  Instructions for embedding
• list of contributors
• Blog
  • 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?)

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)

d. Data Bridge

• Integration (#798)

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects

• PubFlow
• iObserve
• Ensure
• Hora

Study Theses

• Open: List of possible topics
• Running:
  • tfr: "Architecture Based Multivariate Anomaly Detection for Software Systems" (Master's thesis)
  • nie: "Development of a Concurrent and Distributed Pipes and Filters Analysis Framework for Kieker" (Master's thesis)
  • tsj: "Adaptive Monitoring of Perl Applications with Kieker" (Master's thesis)
  • bha: "Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Plugin-based Java Applications with Kieker" aka "Kieker in Space" (Master's thesis)
  • jbey: "Technology Evaluation for the Communication between the Monitoring and Analysis Component in Kieker" (Bachelor's thesis)
  • mass: "Comparing the Performance of different Monitoring Frameworks with Micro-Benchmarks" (Bachelor's thesis)
  • mko: "Tracking User Actions for the Web-based Frontend of ExplorViz" (Bachelor's thesis)
  • flb: "Reconstruction of Workflows with the Help of Kieker Monitoring Records" (Bachelor's thesis)

• Upcoming:
  • sma: "C instrumentation"

Student Projects

Recently completed:

• RSS
  •  Master's development project "A Repository-Based Software Analytics Platform"
    • Ecore-based system model
    • CEP
    • TSLib/OPAD
    • Web-based visualizations

Running:

• CAU:
  •  Master's project "Kieker in the Cloud"
• 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

Upcoming:

• RSS:
  • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien") Software Engineering
    • Integration of Performance Testing in CI environments (in collaboration with  Adesso AG)
  • Master Process Analysis
    • Performance testing (in collaboration with  Adesso AG)

6. Kieker/Palladio Days 2013

• Tentative Date: 27.-29.11.2013 @FZI, Karlsruhe (maybe 1-2 weeks later)

6. Misc

• Update poster
• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• September 4, 2013 @ 10.00-11.30h