Meeting Wed, August 07, 2012 @ 10 AM to 12 AM (Room CAP4 1210)

0. Short presentations/demonstrations today

• Web GUI
  1. nie, row (~ 15 min):
     • Demonstration of current status
     • Creating/editing pipes-and-filters configurations with the  JavaScript InfoVis toolkit
• MENGES
  1. rju (~ 15 min): Kieker-related work in MENGES
• Web site
  1. olp (~ 15 min): Overview of current status
• SEPVS screen casts (#9)
  1. Alex Koch and Sven Gundlach (~ 9 min):
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_STFuGaZdE&feature=plcp
  2. Benjamin Kiel (~ 14 min):
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ1NHAPwunQ

1. SPEC RG/ICPE

2. Kieker @ XY

FG SWA, Paderborn (wha)

• Talk given by Willi on July 3, 2012

Lecture SEPVS

• Lecture given by André, Jan on Thu, 28.6.2012 @ 2 pm
• Slides:  .pdf

Hamburg Web Performance Group

•  http://www.meetup.com/Hamburg-Web-Performance-Group/
• Talk will be in Sept. (date/venue to be announced)
• Focus: OPAD ( Till's Diploma Thesis)

Master's Thesis, Mannheim

• C. Zobel: Monitoring komplexer verteilter Softwaresysteme. Master's Thesis, Hochschule Mannheim, University of Applied Sciences, Feb. 2012

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.6/2.0 scheduled for October 17, 2012
  •  Tickets
  • Goal: Integration of
    • Web GUI
    • OPAD
    • KDM features
  • Release schedule: #555
    • Starts with Instantiate Schedule, Identification of Features & Bugs to Handle @ Wed, Sept. 12, 2012 (week 37/2012)

4. Status of Current Activities

a. Web Site (new)

• Sitemap

b. Web Site (misc)

• #341: Page for Kieker subprojects

c. Web GUI #18

d. Developer Guide, Javadoc, Tests (bjw)

• #464 (Need JUnit test for (Trace) Event Records (constructors, serialization, deserialization, equals))

e. Spring/CXF/Java EE example (mlo)

• #452 (Need tests for Spring probes)
• #315 (Change JavaEEServletContainerExample to use Jetty instead of Tomcat)
• #434 (Need tests for CXF probes)

f. 3D Trace Visualization for Large Software Landscapes (ffi)

g. PubFlow / Workflow monitoring

h. OPAD

• Git + Jenkins + Quick start?
• Trac page (to be filled): wiki:opad
• Trac page for tslib?
• Pull into the Kieker core distribution?
• Include parts in the release
• #500: "Live server" with sample application and OPAD interface hosted on SE machine (samoa?) -> mlo?
• Collaboration with LG ("ARIMA+")?

i. MAMBA & Student Project

• Developing (static and dynamic) extractor for KDM
• related to #73 (ecore-based meta model for trace analysis)
• Integration of results (#539)
• Extraction of UML2 models (+ Visualizations for, e.g., Papyrus)
• Integration of SEPVS results (KDM filters/repository, #539) + KDM2UML visualization + KDM plans?

j. DynaMod /

• Kieker4COM
  • New documentation
    1. Installation and getting started
    2. VB6 monitoring aspects
  • Download via  nightly build
• b+m's model repository efforts
• Holger's graph filter extensions being implemented in the branch GraphFilters (related to #530, #443? etc.)

k. MENGES

l. Diploma Theses

• bri (running): "Dynamic analysis of COBOL system architectures for model-based testing"
• pdo (running): "Entwicklung eines Konzepts zur Visualisierung von Synchronisationspunkten zusammen mit der Statik und Dynamik eines Softwaresystems"
• topics/students?
  • ICANS proposal for internships, study theses:  list of topics (.pdf)

m. b+m FGCenter-related Tickets

• current activity by bjw -> #121: Runtime (de)activation of probes
• Pending
  • (#491: log rotation --> Sönke attached his sources to the ticket)
  • (#505: shutdown hook --> Sönke commented ticket)
  • (#506: final classes/methods --> Sönke commented ticket)
  • (#507: runtime reconfiguration of monitoring controller)

n. Web Casts

• SEPVS results: #9
• Plans?

5. "Kieker Days"/Symposium

• Tentative date: Mon/Tue, Sept. 24/25, 2012? (~ 1 pm to 1 pm)
• Program
• Some ideas
  • Invited external talk(s)
  • New features / Demo
  • Running/completed theses (internal + external?)
  • Related activities (in research projects)
  • Discussions/Break-out-groups/brain-storming

6. Misc

• Feedback SEPVS #516
• How to cite Kieker: #528

7. Ideas for Future Activities:

• #500: Live installation/server (see also OPAD)
• #499: "Merchandising" mainly for those of us interested; e.g.,
  • Polo shirt -> ORDER?
  • Sticker for laptop etc.
• Database of monitoring logs
• #515: Maven repository for Kieker releases
• (Patterns for) Importers for other logs, e.g., Apache access log (#522)
•  Google Summer of Code
•  Get Published by the IEEE Computer Society

Open table

Next meetings

• Wed, Sept. 5, 2012 @ 10 h