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Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 7, 2021!
We have one week left before JMP 16.1 Code Freeze at the end of the day on 5/14/21. Thanks to everyone for continuing to triage your defects and Jira issues in preparation for wrapping up our first maintenance release!
I’ll be glad to help transition your triaged defects to Jira as you get started with 16.2 and continue work on JMP 17 projects. One good way to more get familiar with Jira is by entering new items and/or reviewing your list of “My Issues” to see if you have any still under consideration for 16.1. If you have items open in Jira with Fix Version/s = 16.1:OPEN, indicating they’re still under consideration, please plan to either fix them or remove the 16.1:OPEN location by the end of the day next Friday.
A reminder that we have a section of How-To pages for Jira in the JMP Confluence space. Please feel free to comment or update information on the pages if you see something wrong or want to contribute additional information.
While we did not meet this week for a dev demo, we have several upcoming. John Sall will present on updates made to better support analyzing larger genomics data tables in JMP Genomics without using SAS next week, Ernest Pasour will present on Tables menu preview and preferences updated on 5/20, and we have a few more planned as we head into June. Please let me know if you are interested in presenting at a dev meeting this summer!
Thanks to Tonya as always for sharing this week’s crash (16.1 and 17) and telemetry (16.0) files for the week of 5/7/21 with version 16.1 selected. The JMP Live report is here: Crash and telemetry files for the week of 5/7/21 | JMP Live (sas.com)
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General Announcements
- The call for content for Discovery Summit Americas has been extended to May 11. This is your final chance to submit an abstract for October’s online event!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 16.1 Code Freeze – 5/14/21
- JMP 17.0 EA1 – 6/4/21
Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Host
- John Schroedl: Updated JMP to use the modern WebView2 browser control! Again, thanks to Bob and Jim for their help. Pressing F1 on Windows will now locate and launch a help topic for the active window or dialog. Work with Dan on boxToPicture changes.
HTML5
- Josh M: Provided guidance to testers in verifying refactoring tasks from our last sprint. JMPHTML-824 – Investigate performance timing capture, pushed Part 1: Making performance metrics part of code base without requiring uncommenting debug information and exposing that information in an API to JMP Live. Continued performance documentation in Confluence.
- Mayowa: Added Engineering, EngineeringSI and Precision number formats to interactive html. (JMPHTML-808). Working on supporting customized font sizes interactive html (JMPHTML-837)
- Tommy: Working on exporting colors for table cells. Starting with Process Screening but will be looking at a few other scenarios as well.
- Bryan F: Continued to work on dark mode (example here). I still need to track down some of the places where we assumed text should always be black. Also put up a review for exporting treemap groups from C++ so they don’t have to be calculated from column data in JavaScript. As a result it became more obvious that we are increasing graph sizes by 1 pixel for reasons I don’t fully understand. Consequently, I removed those additions that and I’m running regression tests to see if there is a problem.
- John Powell: Reimplementing the Inverse mode of interactive HTML’s Local Data filter to work like JMP. Fixed Jira items missing fields in the JMP HTML project.
JMP Live
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Working on multiple group analysis so I can anticipate features we will need in the SEM Diagram and can communicate with Eric about them. Met again with Narayanan from P&G to consult on SEM analyses he’ll present at the upcoming JMP Day and, hopefully, at Discovery. Submitted a proposal for a half-day SEM course at CSP.
- Jianfeng: The equivalence testing project has been completed and it is ready for EA. I have moved on to implementing other new features for JMP17.
- Peng: Working on a generic solution of remembering and restoring profiler settings within platforms, and also a custom maintenance setup in RSS.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Taught a (virtual) on-site class at Covidien (Medtronic) with Scott Wise and Ruth Hummel our training course about text analysis that is based on JMP Pro 14. Developed new material for enhancements in JMP Pro 15 and 16.
- Tonya: Wrote several blog posts on new features in JMP 16: Process Screening (in review), Distribution, 2 for Control Chart Builder (2nd one still in review), and CUSUM Control Chart (in review). Cleaning up unit tests and bug verification.
- Jacob: Verifying DOE Defects in 16.1 and adding unit tests. Testing Make Validation Column with excluded rows. Testing Explore Outliers with Save Script to Preferences.
Life Sciences Updates
- John C: Fixed final defects for JMP Clinical 8.1, including an automatic study metadata refresh on first start feature, a translations update, set value order/color preferences issues, and a bug with SAS macro function call quoting. To JMP Clinical 16.1 variable requirements infrastructure, added wildcards for demographic domains and population variables.
Product Management
- Mia: Provided a “Model Visualization and Simulation” talk for Eastman Kodak JMP Day. Continuing preparation for the JMP 17 EA program. Meetings with JMP G team to discuss internal product feedback. Closing out an internal survey with JMP field teams to understand pains/challenges, potential lost deals, and opportunities for improvement related to data preparation in JMP. Learning more about Jira for product management.
- Dieter: Prepared and gave a JMP Live admin training for WL Gore. Also worked on a publishing problem from JMP Live customer Perrigo. Continued setting up the Red Triangle JMP Live instance.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Jim: Updated operating systems, software and VM snapshots and provided Perforce support. Continued to review UT failures that are only occurring on the Big Sur M1 testing machine.
- Bob: Worked with John Schroedl and Jim Borek to be sure all pieces were in order for WebView2 Evergreen install for 17.0 Windows (internal browser software components). Verified new order processing for 16.1 from the SAS R&D process.
- Myron: Collaborated with Justin on XDB updates to support filtering Jira issues in the unit test framework.
- Shannon: Updated pages in the Jira How-To section of the JMP Confluence space. Updated Jira issues with Affects Version/s = 17.0 to use the 17.0:OPEN track per workflow discussion at Jira discussion group this week. Scheduled a few new dev meetings-please let me know if you are interested in presenting a dev demo this summer!
Documentation
- Susan C: Working mainly on JMP Live updates for 16.1. I plan to get the user/admin/install help out for review early next week, so good to give people a heads up.
- Michael C: Migrating DOC defects over to Jira. Helped Sheila with some regular expressions to better automate checking for differences between the weekly help builds.
- Sheila: Prepped the Automation Reference and handed over for translation. Generated the 16.1 help. Worked on defects. Tested method for using Beyond Compare to identify help pages that have changed since the last generation and that writers need to review.
System/Host Testing
- Hunter: JMP 16.1 and 17.0 defect verification. Tested the 2021-03 SODAJMP.pkg installed on M1 Mac mini with JMP 16.0 connecting to SAS 9.4 M6 server using AES encryption.
- Lisa G: Helped test the new partial selection feature in Graph Builder and practiced setting filters and making dashboard gadgets in Jira.
- Mike M: Found Process Screening crash with Sikuli, defect for Pie graph help key, HTML5 bug after precision improvements. Ongoing doc string updates for Sikuli tests.
- Mandy: Finished up verifying Action recorder defects and added tests. Met with Geoff Mann about Tabulate request to help JMPLS get reports requested by FDA. Worked on Tables > preview dialog and reported JIRA defect, but also asked developer to move the buttons on the dialog before the Dev meeting this week to be closer to columns list. Review Coverage Tool that Evan had shown us – reviewing coverage for some of my areas to see where tests things could be possibly added. Tested new option for “table info” to be shown for a data table without opening the table and wrote a simple test – Script: info1 = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Probe.jmp", "table info" ); It returns -> Associative array( 3 elements ) assigned.
- Justin: Updating JSL unit tests. Reviewing jsl-hamcrests for Evan. Testing Jira issue filtering with Myron and updating the testing dashboard to display the new data.
- Josh L: JMP Live Story Testing and bug verification. Helping with a customer questions and documentation questions. Updated our Keycloak 12.04 server with the latest install image so we have the new JMP Live images on that Keycloak server now. Updated the distributed environment to the latest build. Working on a plan to make sure we have Windows Server Coverage in test when we move our test servers to Azure.
- Cary / Beijing JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 3 Stories in Testing
- 7 Stories in Test Ready
- 4 Bug Created in the last 7 days
- 8 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Presented to Life Sciences on how JMP Applications, Dashboards, Projects, and JMP Live relate in saving scripts for windows. Continuing to work on improvements to thumbnail image generation with John Schroedl.
- Dave B: Worked with Aaron on an ASAN problem running unit tests, fixed a problem with running DOE code in the debugger, investigated a crash when pasting into a table, created test case for xgboost crash in 16.0 and verified that the issues is fixed in 16.1 and 17.0. Starting work on forest plot.
- Ernest: Cleanup up ScriptItem tables to remove duplicate platform entries from SI. Turn on duplicate check caching for all Column lists based on some XgBoost issues Russ ran into. Initial support for showing ‘refreshed’ platforms.
- Evan: Many updates to JSL-Hamcrest testing framework (finished v2.0). Defects review. Trying to simplify editing Scripting Index examples in C++.
DOE
- Caleb: Moving some more defects into JIRA in preparation for 17.0 work. Also finished a paper review, fixed some bugs in 17.0, and am working on some enhancements in Sample Size Explorers that could potentially go into 16.2.
- Ryan L: Work on adding units to the Response/Factor lists in DOE.
- Brad: Work on adjusting priorities for DOE development in JMP17.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to John Sall for passing along this comic and a link to a list of variants from other academic fields here: https://twitter.com/mattipihlaj/status/1389085430423957504
Hope you have a great weekend. Whether you’re a mom, grandma, aunt, pet mom, or have ever loved one of the above-Happy Mother’s Day!
