Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 20, 2021!
JMP 17 EA2 installers are available to customers and program members received an email Thursday morning about the new release, so we expect to start seeing more feedback flowing through the system soon. The product management team has also sent reminder emails to previously invited customers who have not yet requested access. You can always find more details on the JMP 17 EA Program confluence page, including log-in information (for jmp.com/earlyadopter), access to EA videos and a JMP Live report of current EA program members.
The DOE team had a lot of good news this week! First of all, Brad Jones was honored with the William G. Hunter Award, named for the founding chair of the ASQ Statistics Division. The award is given annually to honor someone who exemplifies Hunter’s dedication to statistics. According to the ASQ website, which also includes a list of the prior winners, “This includes substantial contributions to statistical consulting, education for practitioners, and integration of statistics with other disciplines as well as demonstrated excellence in communication and implementing innovative applied statistical methods.” Brad, big congratulations on this honor!
Two patents were also recently issued to the DOE team. A patent entitled “Tool for Hyperparameter Validation” was issued on 2021-07-27 as U.S. Patent No. 11,074,483. And a second one entitled “Tool For Designed Experiments With Uncontrolled Factors” was issued on 2021-08-10 as U.S. Patent No. 11,087,033. Last but not least, Ryan and Joseph completed the final proof of their paper titled “On the testing of statistical software” for the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice today. They received word of the paper’s acceptance on 7/30 and are looking forward to seeing it appear in an upcoming special issue on the “State of the art in research on design and analysis of experiments.” Congratulations, all, in recognition of these achievements!
In addition to recognizing awards and achievements, we have welcomes to say this week! I know we were all thrilled to see Jeff Perkinson’s announcement that the JMP Tech Support division in Cary led by Duane Hayes is joining the JMP Customer Care group! Development works closely with all members of Duane’s team and we greatly appreciate all the work they do to assist our customers with issues they encounter when using JMP. Tech Support is an important conduit for user suggestions and bug reports, and I appreciate their tireless support and encouragement to customers to update to a more recent version of JMP. Welcome to the division, all!
Also this week, Nicole welcomed David Elsheimer to the Stat Development Team as a Graduate Research Assistant. David is currently pursuing a PhD in Statistics from NCSU and received his Master’s of Statistics in December 2020. His research interests are Statistical Computing and numerical methods. He is currently under the advisement of Dr. Wenbin Lu. Nicole and David worked this week to get his machine set up and get him acquainted with the various tools he’ll need as he gets familiar with JMP. Welcome, David!
Thanks very much to product management and sales for presenting at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! This joint presentation by Dan V, Juliette Plager, Jeff Upton and Keith Blake helped us all understand better the preparation process JMP teams go through prior to meeting with their customers. It also showcased how our newest product JMP Live is being incorporated into sales presentations about the JMP workflow and JMP family of products. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
Thanks very much to Tonya for keeping us updated on this week’s Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks with crashes selected. You can find the JMP Live report here: Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 8/20/2021 | JMP Live (sas.com)
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Defect/JIRA
General Announcements
- Jessica Marquardt asked me to spread the word that there will be an Everyday DOE social hour at Discovery: “Do you use DOE for a personal project or passion? We’re hosting a Discovery Summit Americas social hour focused on the topic. The conversation will be about running DOEs for things like serving chocolate chip cookies, for making cold-brew coffee, for hard boiling eggs, etc. For example, do you remember reading how DOE came to this JMP user’s rescue when her baby wasn’t sleeping well? If you do anything with DOE for fun or as a life hack, send Jessica Marquardt a note.”
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
Product Management
- Stephanie: Attended a virtual UX conference a couple of week ago and summarized my notes on each talk I attended on this confluence page. Added a link to the talk itself as well. There were some great talks that I thought might be of interest to the whole team-hope you enjoy them!
- Dan V: Working with John Sieman, Michael, Roger and John on adding JMP features protected by patents information to jmp.com and About JMP for JMP 17. The patent listing for JMP 16 is now listed on jmp.com at jmp.com/patents. This page will be updated for JMP 17 and will be also accessible directly from About JMP.
Technical Support
- This has been an exciting week for JMP Technical Support. In case there is anyone that hasn’t heard, Technical Support is moving to Customer Care!
- As per usual, here are the TS JMP Live reports (JMP Live 16). Here is information regarding Customer Reported Bugs filed by TS (in Jira).
- Note from Shannon: I filtered one of the JMP Live reports from the first link above to show weekly non-trial, non-crash tracks by version. It clearly shows a declining trend in tracks per week involving JMP 15.X. It’s excellent to see so many customers working with JMP TS to get JMP 16 and use it! Thanks so much to our excellent JMP TS team and welcome to Customer Care!
Development Operations
- Jim: Replaced ActivePerl with Strawberry Perl on JMPSI, then fixed the ripple effect of related problems. Reported ASAN Jira tickets; bug verification. On multiple UT machines, performed many updates (VC redistributables, OS upgrades, software, testing scripts). On JMP 17 WinOS build machine, upgraded Visual Studio 2019, and with John Schroedl’s help, eliminated the multiple build issues.
- Myron: Now sending the JSL log as an attachment to internal Sirius crash tracks. Please note that the log is included in crash zips for JMP 17 internal builds only. Working on adding a section to the JMP crash system details pages to make it easy to view the contents of the log.
- Nick: Exploring options to help improve the process of making updates to JMP build environments. Troubleshooting help publication process with Sheila.
- Shannon: Migrated defects to Jira. Set up JMP EA sprints in Jira. Reviewed crashes and re-tested crash cases in Defects in preparation for moving crash items to Jira.
Documentation
- Sheila: Investigated FrameScript issues. Investigated Learn about JMP chapter TOC links in JMP Documentation Library.pdf. Tested FrameScript to relink graphics, xrefs, and text insets in localized FrameMaker files. Made headway on File Exchange pages for JMP Doc PDF files add-ins for all languages and JMP versions. Generated the Help.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang:
- Updated JMP Live JSL unit tests related to Update data, Control chart warning, Replace report, etc (BRDSTG-3144).
- Tested migration from 16.1 to 17, including:
- Data archive table
- Publish time of migrated data
- Obsoleted columns
- Title of data post
- Updating / undo updating for migrated data
- Testing JMP Live Jira items under components: Data-Server and Group-Server
- Da Li: (1) Testing OSI PI Import and entered a few bugs. (2) Testing JMP Live new feature "Download as project“ (WEBJMP-3530). (3) Testing JMP desktop and JMP Live bugs. (4) Investigated and fixed JSL unit tests failures in Beijing team's JSL framework. (5) Investigated TS report 7613401458.
- Mike Wu: (1) Executed OLE Regression testing for JMP 16.2. (2) Updated ODBC unit tests to run them on MacOS. Updating Query Builder tests for MacOS. (3) Investigated TS reports 7613397919 and 7613400334.
- Kimi: (1) Investigated and fixed the Formula Depot Python failures in the nightly framework. Now they worked on all Mac machines. (2) Learning the feature "Python Interface", go through the defects/bugs and existed unit tests. Did some random tests. Writing unit/interactive test cases. (3) Testing the support for Anaconda JMP-740 .
- Nala: (1) Worked with Jim and Kimi to resolve the Formula Depot Python issues in the nightly framework. (2) Learnt Best Performance Report Publishing, testing the related JIRA stories WEBJMP-3566 and WEBJMP-3526. (3) Testing Manage Data page WEBJMP-3588. (4) Worked with Jin to resolve some problems in the migration from Openstack to Azure.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Lisa: Added a few unit test for hover label commands like copy, add text, and subset after finding a regression with the subset menu command. Also updated the crash data publishing report to publish on JMP 17 and ran into the Update Data() crash that Eric reported.
- Hunter: Encountered crash with toolbars present in project window (JMP-6205) introduced with macOS Monterey Dev Beta 5, testing fix for JMP-6166 for scenario where original project file is overwritten with Save Project As, some general feature testing on Windows 11 Preview, and defect verification.
- Mandy: Tested JMP on MacOSX Monterey and Windows 11 and found nothing odd or out of the ordinary for my areas. Testing and verifying JIRA tickets and adding test cases and benchmarks. Working mostly on Tables > Shaper and the New packed columns feature in Tabulate.
- Hui: Upon request from John P. due to unit test problem on Safari, started using Safari as default browser for HTML5 testing. Sent Safari installation on Windows to Anna. Thanks to Anna for covering Safari. Prepared testing for HTML5 support on Parallel plot. Reported 7 issues in Jira.
- Josh L: Upgraded Keycloak server KCJMPTEST02 to version 13. Also updated the SSL certificates on that server since they were set to expire on 8/26. Answered some questions about upgrading a PostgreSQL 9.6 to 11. Created some JSL for helping me with my regression testing and did Jira Story and Bug testing.
Cary / Beijing JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 10 Stories in Testing
- 17 Stories in Test Ready
- 19 Bug Created in the last 7 days
- 42 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
Data Discovery
- Xan: Working on Graph Builder performance optimizations (so far, extra summary calcs and row state locking).
- Dave B: Looked at crashes with fit life and automation, fixed a jthread deadlock bug, fixed jmprunner problem caused by network issues, fixed drag marker problem with a log axis, fixed a parallel plot crash.
- Evan: Moving JMP search prototype into C++.
DOE
- Joseph: Continued work on the Easy DOE UI implementation.
- Ryan L: Pushed first implementation of compare designs in Design Explorer.
Host
- John Schroedl: Visual Studio 2019 16.11.1 rollout. Thanks for the quick build machine and install updates! Work on search prototype with Evan. Crash and hang investigations. WebView troubleshooting. Added Patent notice to About box.
- Michael H: Implemented 2-level progress window and fixed indeterminate progress bar animation on Mac. Tracked down the cause of a macOS Monterey beta 5 bug discovered by Hunter, and submitted a bug report to Apple.
- Paul T: Fixed OSIPI defects reported by Da Li, implemented suggestions from John Sall, and updated OSIPI feature page (using “EA3” tags). Began discussions around requirements and design for JMP 17 Data Connectors project. Started on a configuration loader prototype that uses JSL for configuration and began to sketch out the various tasks that should ultimately become JIRA stories.
- Aaron: Completed JSL Promise support for ODBC import via Open Database(). Improved support for space selection in JMP Live Publish dialog. Investigated (with Michael Hecht) and resolved a projects crash in the new MacOS Monterey beta. Fixed a crash when attempting to open an unsupported file type from a web URL.
- Paul N: Assisted on a tech support track on Python and fuzzywuzzy package (which measures distance/difference between text and words) on Windows with Python 3.7. The issue was a warning on import of the package that importing an additional package would improve performance. JMP treated the warning as an error, which aborted the script. Updated code to ensure that the warning goes to the log and is not treated as an error. The user resolved the issue by installing the additional package. Fixed JMP Python issue JMP-740 for JMP 16.2. Replaced calls to deprecated Python’s C API Unicode functions (set for removal from Python in 3.12) for JMP 16.2 and 17. Tried and was unable to replicate ASAN error kicked out of daily build. Worked with Daniel on activation development. Fixed Analyzer warning in JMP 16.2 that looks to be newly produced by the updated Visual Studio compiler.
HTML5
- Mayowa: Working on adding support for ParallelAxisSeg to support implementation of Parallel Plot (JMPHTML-1175).
- Bryan F: Participated in the HTML5 Sprint 5 Planning meeting and began working on JMPHTML-607: Support Packed Bar charts in HTML5. Started working around an issue with the HTML5 build system where we are unable to run tests on Safari version 13+.
- John Powell: Held a planning meeting for JMP HTML5 Sprint 5 set to end just before JMP 17 EA3. Fixed an issue with Column Switchers Published to JMP Live with “Publish Data” disabled. (JMPHTML-1173). Discussed how to answer “what is interactive and what is not” in JMP Live with Mark Zwald. Submitted initial boilerplate code so Mayowa and I can begin supporting the two display segments used in Graph Builder’s Parallel element in Interactive HTML. (JMPHTML-819). Implemented drawing of curves (JMPHTML-1176) for the simplest cases of parallel plots with some more advice from Dave Barbour.
JMP Live
- Michael G: Adding paging to the folder treeview control. Added the folder treeview control to the reports tab on a space. Pushed out listing admins on space details. Various bug fixes.
- Josh M: Continued JMP Live work on WEBJMP-3664 - Create basic Data Table Viewer component.
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Triaging old defects and fixing defects reported by customers. A long standing defect (S1439021) reported by a customer, Laura and Jeremy got fixed. After the fix, the density ellipses in scatterplot matrix with missing data and Pairwise in multivariate and scatterplot matrix platforms match those in bivariate and Graph Builder.
- Annie: Worked on my presentation for next week’s dev mtg, added a ‘Connect Thru Missing’ feature to both CCB & EWMA charts, and fixed miscellaneous issues with control charts.
- Peng: Thanks to help from JMP development colleagues, I fixed more mysterious crashes in a week than I usually do in a year! Continued working on the repeated measure degradation platform and added more models.
- Elizabeth: Working on report options for the GLMM platform; nearly all except profilers are complete. Tried to locate a leak on Mac; thanks to Chris Humphrey for the MacOS & XCode version assistance! Hopefully, next time I’m into the office where my Mac resides that will get all squared away.
- John Sall: Working on speeding up Hierarchical Cluster has had some setbacks, especially the bug in KDTable::cluster() (JMP-6307) that has prevented a new method from working.
- Laura C-S: Continued working on Discovery presentation and getting familiar with Chris’s new numerics SEM routines.
Stat Testing
- Mark B: Preparing a recorded presentation for ENBIS about a pilot study in JMP training that will use simulation in professional training and real-time assessment of understanding of concepts in lessons. (Pilot study may be conducted by JMP Training department.) Assisted Di Michelson with mentoring customer Fujirebio with setting specifications at various stages and how to investigate anomalies in data. Providing feedback to DOE Team about several development projects. Writing unit tests for Profiler in Bivariate.
- Jacob: Tested Accelerated Life Test Design and added new tests for the failure probability. Prepared and recorded Discovery Presentation. Tested Explore Patterns with data from an interesting article shared by Chris Gotwalt.
- Tonya: I’ve been working on unit test cleanup, bug verification, and testing the new Limit Detection features of Distribution.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to John for sending this video link to the amazing drone display at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics! It is truly spectacular.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Special best of luck to all the parents out there who have kids resuming in-person school next week. I know many of us are anxiously waiting on emergency use authorization for the under-12 crowd as we mask up our children and send them back to the classroom. As I keep telling my 9 year old, this new school year is unprecedented in all of modern history-we’ve never had this number of kids who are new to schools or have not been in the building in recent memory. It’s OK for us and for them to feel anxiety and frustration and hope all at once. Please know, you’re not alone in having mixed emotions, no matter what your school situation might be this fall.
Emergency vaccine approval for kids can’t come fast enough!
