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Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 23, 2021!
Thanks to Brian Corcoran and Audrey Shull for sharing the following exciting announcement as they work on a transition plan for a new hire:
Congratulations to new JMP Live developer Justin Chilton! Previously, Justin was a member of the JMP technical support team supporting JSL, and he has been part of Audrey’s host and system testing team for several years now. It’s been a pleasure watching Justin learn and grow over the years as he has assumed greater testing and development responsibilities. Justin recently completed his master’s in computer science at Georgia Tech and he is looking forward to new challenges with the JMP Live team!
We are nearing Code Approval Mode (and our string edit deadline) for JMP 16.1 on 4/27/21, with JMP 16.1 Code Freeze just around the corner on 5/14/21.
- Defects: Please continue to defer defects out of the 16.1 track if you do not plan to address the issue in that track.
- Jira: If you have an item open in Jira that has 16.1 only, or both 16.1 and 17.0, listed in the Affects Version/s field but you do not plan to address it in 16.1, please make a note in the item saying so. If you have already pushed a fix to main/17, your tester will then know that they can mark the item Accepted and Closed upon verification of the change in 17.0.
JMP 16 downloads are in full swing, and we can see them represented in this graph of our Full Installer Orders. This report is updated regularly in JMP Live. It is exciting to know that customers all around the world are taking advantage of the new features and fixes in 16!
Meanwhile, thanks to Tonya Mauldin for continuing to monitor internal crash reports and EA telemetry files. And big thanks to all of you internal JMP users for continuing to report your crashes and bugs. The information and test cases you provide are really the shortest route to an open issue that can be resolved for a future release!
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Crash and Telemetry files for the week of 4/23/21 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
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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
Product Management
- The Single Source Document for JMP 17 is here! Product management is capturing feature information in this document as we approach EA 1 (planned to be built on 6/4), so please let Mia know if there’s anything you’d like to feature for early customer feedback.
- Mia: Met with Peng, Mark Bailey, Pin Hu and customers from Sandoz to understand the request for dissolution profile comparison. Preparing for JMP 17 EA program, including working with Julian on an add-in that will install an Early Adopter menu and splash screen, with the goal to improve customer awareness of how to visit the EA website and send us EA feedback.
Development Operations
- Angelita: Processing returns for books and JMPLive projects. Worked on the 16.1 kits for Sample Data.
- Bob: Removed Excel 2010 from JMP 17 installers. Put nightly builds into 16.1 R&D branches. Worked on corrections to Excel Addin for updaters. Complete 16.1 R&D process.
- Jim: Started removing ActivePerl from all of my testing machines, and replacing it with Strawberry Perl. Software updates and (virtual) hardware requests in preparation for three Windows Server testing machines (2012 R2, 2016 and 2019). Reported numerous issues related to unique UT failures on Mac Big Sur M1 architecture.
- Myron: Migrated and tested various Jenkins jobs on Phoenix server; resolved issues with doc-related jobs with Sheila and Howard. Discussed TestBot changes with Justin.
- Nick: Worked with IT on hardware updates. Evaluated and resolved various Jenkins project setting issues and errors.
Shannon: Updated Jira How-To pages in Confluence. Triaged 16.0 crashes and worked with developers on a few mystery crashes. Checked on crash items still open in 16.1 and added additional reports from the database.
Documentation
- Michael C: Adding examples to SEM documentation; working on Jira-based versions of reports that the doc team uses for managing work; thinking about ways that the doc team end-of-cycle tasks can be further automated to be more efficient between doc freeze and handoff to localization.
- Sheila: Started getting Discovering JMP (DJ) and Automation Guide ready for localization. Updated the 16.1 help. Added draft banners to JMP Live and Public 16.1 and 17.0 help. Worked on enhancements to production FrameScripts. Tried to figure out how to create a Jira dashboard! Updated the 15.1 and 15.2 help templates to insert a “latest help is available at jmp.com/help” banner at the tops of the EN web pages. I’ll regenerate next week.
System/Host Testing
- Mandy:
- Features and Bugs: Tested Tabulate Stack Group columns NF, wrote tests and worked on the demo with Chung Wei. Worked on a Developer build from Aaron on Mac with projects, opening and closing windows. Tested a new feature Chung Wei added to create a Data Table subset on opening by specifying N Rows at the beginning or end, or random rows. Tested the new Tables > Preview feature for 17.0 for Ernest and reported issues that he has fixed. Tried to replicate crash reported by Mike Anderson-Chung Wei pushed a fix for an issue for scroll locked columns.
- Jira: Worked on Jira settings, filters and dashboard, and moved over a component with Ernest. Reviewed and grouped Tabulate defects in preparation for reviewing with Chung-Wei and moving to JIRA. Continuing to triage defects in other areas as well-Data Table, Data Filter, Utilities, Doc and SI defects.
- Justin: Completed existing bugs/requests for tooling projects (testing dashboard, image tests, unit test framework). Fixing easily addressable JMP Starter and Scripting Index issues in Jira. Met with Myron to discuss a plan for XBot updates to support known Jira issues for filtering purposes. JMP 16.1 verifications and unit test updates.
- Hunter: Tested several builds with fixes for opening external files in projects, entered bugs for two crashes (one affecting display tabs in projects and the other opening an Excel file), and JMP 16.1 and 17 defect verification.
- Audrey: Jira work, transition plan for Justin, updating automated jobs related to our EA Data and Jira-linking and Defects-linking with JMP Community posts.
- Mike M: Started weekly reviews with Annie to correct and enhance Sikuli testing for CCB (thanks, Annie!), trying to debug an Untitled window change with Ernest, updated doc strings for all CCB tests, updated Web Help Sikuli tests after main help added a tip. TRYING to get a handle on the 2 noise issues with the image tests.
- Eric Wang: Testing JMP Live Jira items. Verify defects for SASINT. • Updated JMP Live JSL tests to use unique post/groups names to avoid conflict. Now they are named like 'test_001_xxxxxx', where 'xxxxxx' is an random 6-digit number BRDSTG-3120 .
- Da Li: Testing JMP Live Jira items, testing download entire package WEBJMP-2533. Verify defects. Updating/fixing JSL UT failures (Some issues only happened in the nightly framework. Working with Jim to investigate the reason of the failures).
- Mike Wu: Testing JMP Live Jira items. Verify defects. Testing Activation against TEST server.
- Nala: Testing JMP Live Jira items, testing the disabled user in wide-site search WEBJMP-3073. Verify defects. Updating/fixing JSL UT failures (lots of FD tests failed in the nightly framework because the bench issues. I'm working with Jim to investigate the reason of the failures). Updated testbot-win.pl to make it work on Azure VM because it is disabled to connect to jmpsrv01 from an Azure VM.
Data Discovery
- Ernest: Platform preferences are now arranged as a tree. Pushed preview for table menu operations. Miscellaneous fixes for Text Explorer and Recode.
- Dan S: JMP Clinical 16 report scrolling updates, JMP 17 fixes for docking tab crash and interaction issues in projects. Working on updates for thumbnail generation for large reports (Dashboard Builder and potentially others)
DOE
- Brad: Reviewed an article for Quality Engineering. Reviewing an article for the Journal of Quality Technology.
- Caleb: Wrapping up 16.1 fixes. I also had a paper on using near-replicates in design of experiments to estimate pure-error accepted into Journal of Quality Technology! It was the same paper I presented on at DATAWorks.
- Joseph: Working on integrating JMP17 MSA changelists into JMP16.1.
Host
- Paul N: SAS Client security meeting. Created document on JMP’s use of Encryption. JMP 16.1 subscription updates pushed to TEST servers, getting ready for move to production. Continuing work on Metal.
- John Schroedl: More Install Checker updates. Worked with Darwin Driggers to debug why JMP fails to import SAS datasets when using an atypical OS locale.
HTML5
- John Powell: Discussed partial selection and overdrawn markers with overlay role with Xan. Discussed panning and zooming behavior of background maps with Anna. Helped with tooltips and selection refactoring. Answered questions about HTML data filters on the community and with Peter H. and Dieter. Completed our first sprint and held a sprint reviewing meeting. Discussed getting some part time help from Tommy O.
- Josh M: Worked with Bryan Fricke discussing and designing a new approach to the selection/tooltip algorithm. Updated my half a dozen segments to apply this new design (tracked under JMPHTML-502).
- Bryan F: Completed work to unify code that determines which graph element to use for both selection and tooltips.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 16.1: Fixed a few last tiny bugs; recorded a demo video for download-as-jmp-project feature. 17.0: Started designing lockout of downloads site-wide. Start designing new access control mechanism. Start the work of wiring in database transactions more broadly.
- Tommy: Bug fixes for JMP Live. Started DAST scans for JMP Live 16.1.
Statistics
- Peng: Finalizing a talk which I am going to give next week at University of Arkansas. Discussed feature requests and investigating newly surfaced issues.
- Elizabeth: Fixed a CRP bug in SVM with predictions for categorical Y’s with >2 levels and missing values in 17.0. Testing now for integration to 16.1 (hopefully before approvals). GLMM work continues.
- Laura C-S: Gave a guest lecture on SEM at the U. of New Hampshire for Phil Ramsey’s class. Fixed a couple of crashes in main and 16.1. Met with Narayanan at P&G to continue to discuss modeling means in SEM. Reviewed 16.1 doc updates. Continued work on instrumental variable estimator.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Answered user community questions about simulated Anderson-Darling P-values and K Sigma in EWMA. Unit test cleanup. Bug verification.
- Mark: Assisted with assessment of pharmaceutical customer request for determination of similarity of dissolution curves. Continue to shadow Jacob and his testing of MSA Design. Answer user questions in JMP Community.
- Jeremy: Unit test clean up and bug verification. Worked on a blog post on spectral analysis with Bill and Mark. We found a nice demonstration of the utility of FDE in the NIR workflow. Put a profiler in fit y by x. Compared wavelet regression and FDOE on some spectra data sets.
Note from Shannon
Congratulations to JMP Live and HTML5 developer Josh Markwordt and his sweetheart Tatiana who got engaged this week! They met pre-pandemic as Tatiana was completing the nursing program at Duke, having gone back to school to change careers after ten years teaching kindergarten. Congratulations to the happy couple! And have a wonderful weekend, all!
