As a follow-up event of our successful meetings in 2012 and 2013, we will organize the 2014 Symposium on Software Performance in Stuttgart, Germany on November 26-28. It will be a joint meeting of the Descartes, Kieker, and Palladio communities.

In addition to invited talks from practitioners and researchers, we welcome contributions from academic, scientific, or industrial contexts in the field of software performance, including but not limited to approaches employing Descartes, Kieker, and/or Palladio.

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Today, we released version 1.9 of our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis: https://kieker-monitoring.net/

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Our new quickstart guides for Kieker demonstrate how to easily monitor and analyze Java applications with Kieker. Our first guide introduces Kieker from the command-line. The second guide demonstrates Kieker with Eclipse. Note, that the guides are written for the upcoming Kieker 1.9 release as well as for our current nightly builds.

Out of the 20 posters that were presented during the poster/demo session on Tuesday at the ICPE 2014 in Dublin, ours has been elected as the best poster. The election was conducted during the poster session by the attendees of the presentations by putting stickers on posters that were counted afterwards.
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At the ​5th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2014), we gave a 2-hour tutorial. The slides and instructions for the interactive parts, are publicly available:

1. Slides: http://eprints.uni-kiel.de/23928/  (including handout version)
2. Instructions for interactive parts: http://trac.kieker-monitoring.net/wiki/tutorials/201403icpe/

Just in time for the Software Engineering 2014 (SE 2014) we finished a new Kieker poster. Feel free to use it in order to advertise for Kieker!

Tom Frotscher wins the 2013 Software & Systems Engineering Award (b+m SSEP) for his Master’s thesis on “Architecture-Based Multivariate Anomaly Detection for Software Systems”. Since 2011, the annual b+m SSEP jury elects an excellent thesis submitted to the Kiel University’s Computer Science Department based on scientific quality and practical relevance . Tom’s thesis, supervised jointly by the Universities in Kiel and Stuttgart, extends the initial work on Kieker’s Online Performance Anomaly Detection (OPAD) approach by Tillmann Bielefeld who received the b+m SSEP in 2012. Tom’s thesis was again conducted in close collaboration with Xing AG, whose well-known  business networking platform served as the case study system. Continue reading →