Meeting Wed, September 05, 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
• 2. POSTPONED to separate date (t.b.d): Dashboard design; ffi, chw (~ 15 min)
• Web site
  1. olp (~ 15 min): Overview of current status
• 11.00h: Presentation of Diploma thesis results:
  1. Bettual Richter presents the results of his Diploma thesis, entitled Dynamische Analyse von COBOL-Systemarchitekturen zum modellbasierten Testen (“Dynamic analysis of COBOL system architectures for model-based testing”, in German)

1. SPEC RG/ICPE

2. Kieker @ XY

Hamburg Web Performance Group

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

3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.6/2.0 scheduled for October 17, 2012
  •  Tickets
  • Goal:
    • Integration of
      • Web GUI
      • OPAD, TSLib
      • KDM features
    • New web site online
    • Live server online
  • 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)

b. Web Site (misc)

• add DFG logo to web site (PubFlow and SPP project)?
• #341: Page for Kieker subprojects -> "research" section

c. Web GUI #18

• classloader issue
• p&f editor
• server back-end

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

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?
• To be moved (reusable components) to Kieker core distribution (in progress)
  • TSLib #557
  • OPAD #558
• Issue: license of CEP engine
• #500: "Live server" with sample application and OPAD interface hosted on SE machine (samoa?) -> mlo?

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 /

• model repository (b+m, Master's thesis bes)
• Holger's graph filter extensions being implemented in the branch GraphFilters (related to #530, #443? etc.)

k. MENGES

l. SLAstic

m. Diploma Theses

• bri (completed): "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)

5. "Kieker Days"/Symposium

• Tentative date: Mon/Tue, Sept. 24/25, 2012? (~ 1 pm to 1 pm)

around release date in October

• 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. -> on their way
• Database of monitoring logs
• Screen casts (#9)
• #515: Maven repository for Kieker releases
• (Patterns for) Importers for other logs, e.g., Apache access log (#522)
• Presentation by ffi on dashboard design
•  Google Summer of Code
  • Heise news (in German):  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Google-zieht-Fazit-zum-Summer-of-Code-2012-1679173.html
•  Get Published by the IEEE Computer Society -> avh requested additional information

Open table

Next meetings

• Mon, October 08, 2012 @ 2 PM to 4 PM, Room CAP4 1210