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Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 9, 2021!
We are nearing JMP 16.1 Code Approval Mode on 4/27/21. Please review open bug lists and identify and comment on items that need to be resolved for our first maintenance release. Also, 4/27/21 is the last day to make string edits for 16.1. Code Freeze for JMP 16.1 is coming up in a little over a month (5/14/21).
Hopefully you have noticed my items pointing to stories on Inside JMP, our JMP internal intranet site located in the JMP Community (e.g., see the Inside JMP item in General Announcements below asking you to share for the Get to Know feature). Sales highlights, education updates, product management updates, and stories featuring your JMP colleagues are all posted there along with all kinds of helpful bookmarks and other resources. You should subscribe (in the red triangle menu on this page) to receive email notifications of new posts. Thanks to Diana’s team for maintaining this wonderful site!
I am continuing to work with teams to migrate items to Jira via CSV import. Please let me know when you have triaged your items remaining open in Defects and are ready to migrate some or all of them to start getting familiar with Jira. I do not currently plan to migrate items from the Future track or L priority items.
However, I am willing to make an exception for select Future track items that are on your actively triaged future to-do list but not yet scheduled for a specific release. If you have such items, they can be imported without a release track assigned, and assigned to a specific release when they become a priority at a later date.
Justin Chilton kindly created a script that calls the Defects and Jira APIs to do a series of cleanup steps to address various items that the Jira CSV import tool can’t accomplish-adding links, watchers, reformatting text and other tasks.
Once items have been imported via CSV and cleaned up using Justin’s tool, they are closed with a comment redirecting to Jira. We worked out a variety of features and bugs this week as Justin and I collaborated to get all of the HTML5 team’s items migrated. Thanks to John Powell for working with us to get this task completed!
Finally, big congrats to two JMP development collaborations that produced issued patents recently!
Ryan Parker, Clay Barker and Chris Gotwalt received word that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent for Analytic System for Interactive Graphical Model Selection on 2021-03-30 as U.S. Patent No. 10,963,788. (Issued Patents.)
Jeremy Ash, Chris Gotwalt, and Laura Lancaster were recently issued a patent for work titled Analytic System with Extrapolation Control in Interactive Graphical Prediction Evaluation on 2021-03-30 as U.S. Patent No. 10,963,804. (Issued Patents.)
General Announcements
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 16.1 Code Approval Mode Begins – 4/27/21
- JMP 16.1 Code Freeze – 5/14/21
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Technical Support
- Duane: Tech Support is definitely feeling the impact of JMP 16. Our customers seem excited to install and use it, and we are helping to get them going. I have attached a plot of JMP 16 Topics that we’ve seen since in March and April so far. Not surprising, the majority of JMP 16 issues have been around installation and the demo. As usual, here are the (rest of the) TS JMP Live reports.
Development Operations
- Nick: Working with ISD on CAVCENT VM issues and Melanie on Auto-Integration questions.
- Jim B: Reported a 1610MacBSMX only failed unit test script to Michael Hecht for investigation. Working with Beijing testers to get Windows VMs set up correctly with ODBC drivers, Excel installation and activation. Building and testing a JMP Trial 16.1 bundle with Michael Hecht to make sure the JRE folder is not present (thanks Bob).
- Bob: Changed process at end of V17 Windows installs so that Check for Updates is not an option. Instead, V17 code will check for updates on first launch. Installers for Trial and Student Subscription modified to handle special add-in folder better. Changed license of JMP Pro 14 employee download, which until now was the standard on newly staged machines. Worked with ISD to change the standard to use JMP Pro 16 instead. Added new V17 registry file to installers
- Myron: Meeting with memoQ tech support to understand installation and user management and updating some of the doc overnight scripts.
- Angelita: Working on the JMPLive Client/Server. Installer and Keycloak projects. After we were able to sort out some issues with the new server, started processing returns for the Books.
Documentation
- Sheila: Worked on defects. Generated the 16.1 JMP Help. Working on issues with regenerating the Chinese 15.2 JMP Help to speed up the search.
- Michael C: Did some cleanup of 16.1 strings stuck in “New” status in Stringbot; worked on Jira conversion for Doc team.
System/Host Testing
- Hui: Worked with help desk, Josh L. and Audrey to set up devices for HTML5 Mobile Testing. Worked on fixing a JMP16.1 installation issue on a shared server machine. Thank Bob for solving the problem. Collaborated on testing HTML5 data filter on stat platforms based on the script supplied by Nicole’s team. Reported HTML5 interactive issues of panning on histogram and marker label. Reported a desktop hover label issue.
- Lisa G: Cleaned up some unit tests, revised and submitted the third blog post to the hover label series, and verified 16.1 hover label crashes.
- Justin: Updating failing JSL unit tests. Added moving URL links, Defect relationships, and the Root Cause field to the Jira-to-Defects cleanup process.
- Audrey: Confluence setup for JMP TS and looking into making sure all older wiki content is preserved. Reviewing posts in the JMP Community related to closed defects. Some testing for Virtual Join. Eric Wang: Updating JMPLiveJSL tests to use the HTTP Request instance from connection object to call JMP Live API. Testing JMP Live Jira items, testing new ‘Add JMP Live Connection()’ function (WEBJMP-2748).
- Da Li: Testing JMP Live Jira items, testing download entire package WEBJMP-2533. Verify defects. Knowledge Sharing in Beijing team, see KnowledgeSharing-Da-20210402 . Updating/fixing JSL UT failures.
- Mike Wu: Testing JMP Live Jira items. OLE VB automation testing with JMP Pro 16.1 (04/05/2021). JMPC 7.1.2 (94 M6) every 6 months check. Update the checkpoints document of JMP Clinical 8.0 Installer monthly Check. Verify defects. Updating/fixing JSL UT failures.
- Nala: Testing JMP Live Jira items. Investigated JMPC 8.0 issues according to Wenjun's request. Working with Jin to investigate how to migrate the current VMs to Azure. Updating/fixing JSL UT failures.
- Josh L: Working with the network team to get ports open for some of our test systems so others in the group can get to them. Troubleshooting some issues on the 16.1 servers that turned out to be expired JMP Pro Licenses. Here’s the JMP Live Testing Team status for 16.1, including Cary and Beijing items:
- 10 Stories in testing
- 41 Stories and Bugs in Test Ready
- 17 bugs created in the last 7 days
- 54 Stories and Bugs have been accepted and closed
- Hunter: JMP 16.1 and 17 defect verification, tested and reported problems with several Open Window builds on Mac and Windows for S1194835, and many attempts to recreate the crash in S1581681 with JMP 16.1 and 17.0.
Data Discovery
- Ernest: Performance work on Term and Select Duplicate. Locale fix for Sentiment Analysis. Restructuring platform preference list. Feedback/roadmap on preview for Tables menu items.
- Dan S: Fixed font performance issue for large reports on Mac. Added support for transform columns in FitModel dialog bypass. Fixed Ternary Plot to avoid writing out Contour Function() script when not necessary. Triage of 16.1 bugs.
- Dave B: Pushing changes to 16.1, fixed script editor/find dialog crash, investigated and hopefully fixed crash when closing jmp because data table destructors are running after the Workspace is deleted (related to automation), worked with Michael and John to delay initialization of host scrolling components for tablebox.
- Evan: Worked with Aaron to deliver With Window Handler JSL to help test modal dialogs. Added Mock functions for testing callbacks to the unit test framework. Fixed JSL class instance memory leaks when circular references are used. Expanding JSL classes test coverage and working on classes defects.
- Paul V: Just been fixing some Pareto defects. Currently, looking at performance as Jacob opened a defect that 17 is slower than 16.
DOE
- Joseph: Worked on MSA bug fixes for JMP16.1 including preference for replicated run odering. Continued work on the new EZDOE platform. Submitted DataWorks 2021 tutorial slides. Also, the Combinatorial Testing paper, coauthored with Ryan, for Statistical Theory and Related Fields journal is now available (published online 4/6/2021).
Host
- Aaron: Finished and pushed the initial version of the JSL Window Handler feature. Updated the code path for opening new windows so that project content goes directly into a TabPage without an intermediate temporary DisplayWindow. Reworked the window activation sequence and added JWindow:: windowLastActivatedTime().
- John Schroedl: Checked in support for Easy DOE (.ezdoe) file type. Add project tabs to Ctr+Tab window. Fix Time Series crash in project window. Removed obsolete checks for Windows 7 and 8. Enabled a few more static analysis warnings: Using std::move from a const. Using if (flag & 0) {...} always false.
- Michael H: Various fixes for integer overflow bugs on Apple Silicon.
HTML5
- The team has been doing a lot of planning work for JMP 17.0. HTML5 developers and testers met to discuss JIRA usage. Bryan demonstrated their process for using Jira to manage sprints for JMP 17.0. The team also voted on refactoring tasks and got started on their JMP 17 Refactoring sprint.
- John Powell: Screened developer candidates. Helped Anna find out why a JMP Live Server could update. Discussed incorrect bar colors in PLS MDMM platform with Jianfeng, Brian, and Dan V (S1587234). Reported a shrinking graph issue to Ernest. Discussed sharing Graph Builder examples and default fill selection mode with Xan. Responded to CRISPR (through Dieter) that HTML5 doesn’t support font customization; discussed unsupported font customization and unsupported engineering formats with Brian, and Dan V. Working on JMPHTML-512 displaying mean categorical values in tooltips and labels - discussed with Paul V. and Josh M. Set Pubs Affected field in closed defects. Worked with Shannon and Justin to convert JMP 17.0 HTML5 defects to JIRA. Investigated customer issue Track 7613314737 which turned out to be data needing encoding.
- Bryan F: Working on converting from mouse and touch events to the newer pointer events. Doing so will allow us to capture the mouse so that you can pan and zoom a graph even if the cursor or your finger (for a touch device) crosses over another graph. For standalone HTML5, the cursor or your finger can even go outside the browser window. Here is an example. Fixed an issue where a treemap cell may not look selected when exported to HTML5 if there is not a column in the y role and all the rows are hidden.
- Mayowa: Worked on updating interactive html support message strings (JMPHTML-539), working on refactoring code to determine full or partial support for interactive html (JMPHTML-547)
- Josh M: Fixed stringbot wording flagged by tool (reviewed by Landra). Pushed fix for S1587814: Line on top of areas appears and selection of orphaned line segment doesn't match. Integrated a categorical data filter performance optimization back into 16.1 after additional testing. Completed defect triage and all items intended for 16.1. Began refactoring profiler data structures in preparation of categorical profilers for JMP 17, as well as discussing priorities and coordinating with test teams. Set profiler work aside mid-week to begin row states refactoring (JMPHTML-532), completed first iteration and did benchmarks, details here.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 16.1: Bug fixing for downloading a JMP Live post as a JMP Project, and for removing a folder from a group. 17.0: REST API standardization.
- Tommy O: Working on bug fixes for 16.1 / 17.0. Finished up experimenting with a node.js OIDC provider package to see if it could simplify our authentication from JMP to JMP Live.
Statistics
- John Sall: Continuing to speed up Genomics-relevant code, Response Screening smoothed over some bottlenecks to improve a benchmark problem from 13.35 minutes to 6.50 minutes, more than double the speed. This involved 319 Y's by 667,505 X's on 390 rows; about 213 million regressions, or about 545,000 regressions per second on a 16-core Mac Pro. Also Logistic Regression was provided with some mechanisms to support huge numbers of response variables (S1588132). Some of the speedup involved switching from shared_ptr's to raw pointers (reported in a recent email, S1588205). Also thank you to Dave Barbour for hugely speeding up TableBox creation (S1588110) and Dan Schikore for hugely speeding up GFont constructors on the Mac (S1588111).
- Laura C-S: Finished preparing materials for next week’s presentation at DATAWorks. Investigated a convergence issue in SEM, improved display of warnings and fixed a defect in the predicted values plot. Researched a few topics including, instrumental variables’ method for starting values in SEM, ideal method for confidence interval of reliability coefficients, and fitting PROC SYSLIN models in SEM.
- Peng: Constructed examples and explained how to fit Eyring model using JMP to our China team. Submitted a couple of abstracts for talks. And address some newly surfaced defects.
- Annie: Worked on fixing defects in Control Chart Builder, Cusum Control Charts, and the EWMA Control Chart, both in 17 and integrating some into 16.1.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing mixture factors used as covariates in DOE. Testing fixes related to factor names in DOE (S1588289 and S1588315). Testing the performance of SEM, Latent Class Analysis, and Multivariate Robust Outliers.
- Jeremy: Bug verifications and unit test clean up. Work on our extrapolation control paper.
Product Management
- Dieter: Dealt with the certificates for JMP Public, improved my JSL skills by programmatically adding users to a JMP Live site and upgraded jmplivesales16 to JMP Live 16.1
Note from Shannon
Congratulations again to Nora Varga and thanks to Russ for sharing pictures of her precious bundle of joy Sophie Emese (Emmie) Paton who arrived last week! Nora also says thank you very much for the beautiful flowers JMP sent!
Also, thanks to Annie for sharing this charming recording of Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director, accompanying himself whilst singing, “Here Comes the Sun”.
