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Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 5, 2021!
Thanks to everyone for all the work on JMP 17 feature pages in preparation for EA2! The EA2 installers are now ready for testing and we expect to be able to make them available to customers within a week or so. It’s excellent to have so many new features and fixes to share with customers since our first iteration, and we’re all looking forward to hearing feedback as customers begin to update.
Please remember that Mia is often requesting status on ongoing JMP 17 projects through comments on their feature pages, so please keep an eye out for those comments and respond to her requests for updates.
Audrey shared the following update to mark the end of the SAS summer internship program: ”JMP welcomed eight interns this summer, and based on the presentations we saw yesterday (recording here), I think we all got a good deal out of it. The interns had a great experience and interesting projects, while we in JMP benefitted from these talented young people. While we say a fond goodbye to some of them, a few will continue to work part time with JMP throughout the school year. Best of luck to all of you as you return to your studies!”
Thanks very much again to our interns who presented yesterday, and of course also to Audrey for doing such an amazing job coordinating the JMP intern program! These past two years of summer internships have had the added challenge of being virtual, but Audrey has handled the transition so well, continuing the tradition of JMP intern shared training and keeping everyone in touch throughout.
The summer interns this year made great contributions to in many areas-improving the quality and organization of JMP learning resources, understanding how our customers are using and benefitting from our software (and understanding the challenges they still face in getting the most out of it), as well as improving the software and the processes by which we create, test and validate it. Internships are such a valuable part of getting real life experience in a field, and I know that these students will take what they have learned on to future positions and careers. Hopefully they will also continue to use and love JMP along the way!
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 EA3 – 10/1/21
- JMP 17.0 EA4 – 11/5/21
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang:
- Tested group migration from 16.1 to 17. Found a bug that caused migration process to fail, .
- Testing backend group changes, including:
- Database changes
- RESTAPI and GroupQL changes
- Online doc changes
- Added more integration tests
- Da Li: (1) Continue to test story WEBJMP-3110: Design the spaces table and migrate existing group content to spaces, more bugs created. (2) Verifying JMP Live and JMP Desktop defects/bugs. (3) Investigated TS report 7613395366. (4) Summary backup and restore PostgreSQL database command during JMP Live upgrade/migration testing, see link.
- Mike Wu: (1) Tested Categorical (Ordinal and Nominal types) Html5 profiler for . (2) Executing JMP 17.0 OLE Regression testing due to big EvalContext changes BRDSTG-3154 .
- Kimi: (1) Verifying Formula Depot defects/bugs. (2) Investigating FD unit tests failures. (3) Study the usages and framework for Formula Depot unit tests.
- Nala: (1) Testing JMP Live stories/bugs about linked table (WEBJMP-3476 ), social share and JMP Publish. (2) Test connection on Azure, investigated how to setup ports for SAS stored process.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- All: EA2 Testing.
- Hui: Worked on HTML5 support on Font Sizes. Reported 10 issues in Jira.
- Hunter: Reported some host issues for supporting the .jmpdoe file extension (S1587858), tested configurations for performance issues opening SAS data sets with extended attributes, and JMP 17 EA 2 validation.
- Mike M: Lots of work this week catching up on Mac image tests after Justin got them running again (thanks Justin!). Reviewed many of the 100’s of Mac diffs and sent a list of Hover Label tests to Lisa to investigate (thanks Lisa!). Found an axis fonts issue where a scaled-up font will overlap axis titles (no open JIRA yet). Investigated an undo code change that seemed to affect CCB image tests. Also checking that Outline Box << Close() message work inside of CCB, they seem to only work at the top level of the CCB report.
- Mandy: Tested the Table Shaper and tried to come up with examples for the EA2 video. Reviewed EA support tracks. Worked with Dahila Watkins on virtual join issue at JMP 15 that is problematic for user moving to 16 and opened a JIRA ticket.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed a scatterplot3d selection bug and worked with John Powel to figure out scatterplot text customization issues. Updated jmprunner so that Jira issues show up on the context menu for change list builds if the check in comments reference one. Updated jmprunner so if there is a debug build available, it can be run via the context menu (the nightly builds and builds we release to the public should have debug builds available but they are not created for change list builds). Updated the context menu for tables to include a dialog entry to make it easier to select multiple columns or multiple styles. Researched a couple of crashes.
- Dan S: Fixes for MakeCombinedDataTable in TableBox, Scrolling in ListBox and when adding new sections to a report, and a potential crash using filters in Text Explorer. Working on filtering options for JMP Clinical and stretching option in Control Chart Builder.
- Evan: Fixed several high-profile JSL classes symbol resolution bugs. Reviews for JSL Promises. Looking into current (internal) uses of XPath and Display Box subscripting to see if we can make some improvements there. Investigating how to best aggregate window specific content for search.
- Ernest: TableShaper: fixing bugs in Recode support for EA2, starting adding a “custom JSL” operation
Host
- Paul T: Added new content to OSIPI feature page here. Modified generated JSL to support a more object-oriented model that can support “Run” and “Modify” actions.
- Paul N: Updated libcurl in main and 16.2 from 7.77.0 to 7.78.0 21 July 2021 release, which fixes 5 CVE vulnerabilities. Pushed host separation of JThread, so the windows threading code is in hostJThread.cpp. C++11 and pThread code for threading remains in JThread.cpp. Early next week I will flip the #define on macOS to use C++11 threading instead of pThreads. Once the C++11 threading has proven stable, I will remove the pThread code from JThread.cpp. Continuing work with AWS based activation.
HTML5
- John Powell: Put final touches on our Interactive HTML Improvements feature page for EA2. Planned HTML5 ‘End of sprint’ meetings. Met with interviewers to plan full Interviews for our JavaScript Software Developer position and performed our first full interview for this position. Fixed issue with Significance Circles in Scatterplot Matrix (JMPHTML-1154). Answered a question on the JMP User Community about Local Data Filters in Interactive HTML. Started investigating a way to save, restore, and share local data filter settings while on JMP Live. (WEBJMP-348)
- Mayowa: Continued working on supporting marker and marker label font customization (JMPHTML-1129), working on supporting heatmap label font size customization (JMPHTML-1123)
- Bryan F: Working on JMPHTML-803 which is a task that will allow a user to resize graph frames and scrollable boxes that are published to JMP Live. I hope to have this checked in next week. Participated in an interview for the JavaScript developer position.
- Josh M: Helped fix unit tests that were disabled due to errors last Friday.
JMP Live
- Aurora: For 16.2, made the loss of "large objects" during publish return a clearer error. For 17.0, Access control (performance improvement). Spaces (new method for finding space admins, remove transitional code that allowed for space-less posts). Data Posts (allow download of single data post as project, bug fix for view records of data posts).
- Michael G: Continuing work on the manage data updates for data posts. Added a filesystem-like view for a space page. After UI meeting, working on adding a folder tree to aid in navigation on both report view and filesystem view. Various bug-fixing and UI tweaks.
- Josh M: Working on WEBJMP-3664 - Create basic Data Table Viewer component.
Statistics
- Peng: Continued working on the repeated measure degradation platform this week and fixed a couple of newly surfaced defects for 16.2.
- Annie: Worked on adding a label role for CCB (JMP-5127). A variable in this role will not be sorted, but instead will be used as a Value Label associated with the row numbers on the X-axis.
- Jianfeng: Started work on the new feature of equivalence tests for the difference between two proportions. Also triaging defects to remove items from my lists before moving them to JIRA.
- Laura C-S: Continued working on my Discovery presentation. Getting more familiar with Chris’s code for multiple group analysis (very exciting!). Helped triage a few defects. Met with Narayanan (P&G) to answer questions about SEM for his Discovery presentation.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Evaluating early prototypes by DOE team (EasyDOE, MSA Design, ALT Design, Compare Designs). Developing unit tests for Profiler in Bivariate.
- Jacob: Writing a unit test for the new DOE feature Design Explorer. Preparing my Discovery talk. Testing the diagnostics in Compare Design and Design Explorer.
Life Sciences Updates
- Rebecca: Continued work on cleaning up the AE distribution report, adding the ability for some variables to be optional instead of required and doing some work with treatment start and end dates. Also received comments from the FDA on a Drug-Induced Liver Injury addin we created for them and began responding to those comments.
- Anisa: Triaged JMP Clinical defects in preparation for moving to Jira.
Product Management
- Dieter: Worked on some confluence pages to document customer installation issues and provided help for the authentication setup.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Myron: Updating Stringbot config so that JConcreteException() maps to Msg context instead of Txt. Updating crash system to extract and display JMP log from 17.0 crash zip files.
- Jim: Modified unit test scripts to utilize the single file download that Bob is now creating for Windows JMP 16.x installers. Reported numerous LEAKS Jira tickets ; suspending Leaks reporting for JMP 17 on Mac. Last, but not least, branched source code and built JMP Pro 17 EA #2
- Nick: Collaborated with Sheila on testing and final tweaks for Help publishing Jenkins project.
- Bob: Code and process conversion of all 16.2 Windows installers into single file executables. Work for JMP 17 EA2.
- Shannon: Collaborated with Nicole to move triaged stat team defects to Jira and Anisa to move an initial batch of JMP Clinical defects to Jira. Fielded various Jira usage and organization questions. Reviewed JMP 16.1 and JMP 17.0 crashes and entered a few new mystery crash investigations for unsolved JMP 16 crashes.
Documentation
- Susan C: Working mainly on SEO updates. The team is working on all the books, and I’m doing reviews and verification checks. I’ve also reviewed the EA2 help for my books.
- Sheila: Tested new versions of software programs to create Help and PDF output. Generated the EA Help.
Note from Shannon
In this morning’s call for updates, I shared this story about an Olympic diver competing today who is from Morrisville. Thanks to Bob H for sharing some additional local Summer Olympics connections! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
As some of you may know, the training center and headquarters for the USA Baseball Olympic Team is here in west Cary. Tomorrow morning (6:00 AM EST) will be the gold medal game vs Japan.
Here is Bob’s picture of the team posing for the official team picture before they left the training facility for Tokyo:
He also reminded me that we have a 17-year old silver medal-winning swimmer from Cary, and the bronze medal winner in the women’s triathlon lives here too.
Wishing all the athletes luck as the games wind down! I have a lot of highlights still to watch, though I did catch several of the track and field throwing events already. I competed in discus and shot put in high school, but the numbers that these professional throwers put up there are just unbelievable to me!
One last local Olympics connection, but this one to the city of my birth (Rome, NY), not my adopted hometown (Cary NC). Former Olympian Anthony Washington competed in discus at the Olympics several times and graduated from Rome Free Academy (RFA) in the years while I was growing up so he was a definite hometown hero.
I always found it so cool that I had the chance to work out at the RFA gym during the summers in middle school and even had a chance to throw discus and get some pointers from Tom Myslinski, Washington’s coach who gets a nice mention in this article. (His wife, affectionately known as Mrs. Mys, was my English teacher one year at my high school.) Washington also has a son who excels at throwing events. Turner Washington recently won NCAA national indoor and outdoor shot put titles and an outdoor discus title for Arizona State but seems to have just missed the Olympics. Hopefully next time!
