Welcome to the JMP Development Update for October 29, 2021!
This week we bid a fond farewell to Chung-Wei Ng, one of the original 4 in JMP development! She is retiring on 10/31 and took the last few days of this week off. Here’s a great picture from a past Holiday lunch in building T. Thanks, Mandy, for sharing and also for rounding up participants for Ryan Dewitt’s farewell video creation! You can check it out in this a article on Inside JMP.
Dan Schikore created this word cloud of Chung-Wei’s changelist descriptions since we started using Perforce in the early 2000’s, and Xan Gregg contributed this packed bar view of the data. Hopefully Chung-Wei will stop by for lunch from time to time! I’m still determined to recruit her for the EA program.
Speaking of EAs, thanks for keeping your feature pages up to date throughout the cycle! Please add information you’d like to highlight in JMP 17 EA4 to feature pages by November 8, and send new EA videos to Mia by Nov 10.
As we prepare for finalizing both JMP 17 EA4 and JMP 16.2, several of the testers in Cary and Beijing are engaged in Early Installer Testing of both releases. The EA4 early testing involves verifying the connections to the new AWS instances of Help and Crash servers that we’ll use for the first time with EA4. So far, the connections appear to function as expected.
The JMP 16.2 effort has two major goals: first, to check all the installers and look for things that might cause us to need to rebuild (version numbers, copyrights, codesign, third-party files); second, to run through all major functionality, especially interactive features that we want to be sure are working well (printing, dynamic linking, mouse tools, helpkeys, menu customization). This installer pre-flight check helps us identify and resolve issues earlier so that JMP teams can validate Final Image Candidates faster at the very end of the cycle.
Thanks to Tonya for sharing this week’s details about Beta/crash/telemetry tracks with crashes selected. JMP Live report here: Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 10/29/2021 | JMP Live (sas.com).
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General Announcements
- Make sure that you check out Diana’s Halloween memories story on InsideJMP, a trip down memory lane of some past JMP Halloween fun!
- Next week we will welcome Beth Evans as the new R&D office administrator. Her office will be in A4331 so if you are in the building, please stop by and say hi!
- 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 16.2 Code Freeze - 11/2/21
- JMP 17.0 EA4 – 11/5/21
- JMP 17.0 EA5 – 12/10/21
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Mostly working with Michael, John and Dan on Nick’s suggestion to add a 3 state checkbox
JEXP void checkBoxSetItemThreeState(DisplayBox const* t, bool set);
class JEXP DisplayCheckPtr : public DisplayControlPtr {
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DisplayCheckPtr& setThreeState(bool set);
- Dan S: Fixed bagplot crash in 16.2, fixed Tabulate crash on empty results with packed columns, fix Diagram crash on row-state change. Prototyping new JRP/Session file code and a new dynamic-subset feature for JMP 17.
- Xan: Attending virtual IEEE VIS conference (https://virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2021/index.html).
DOE
- Caleb: Working with the sample size explorers to correct some last minute 16.2 bugs, but primarily working on implementing a new profiler look to the rest of the explorers. I’m looking to have the new look in the software for EA 3. Other than that, we got our costumes ready for Halloween! Be on the lookout for a cute sea predator on the hunt to take a “bite” out of some candy
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- Brad: Working on Program Committee for the Stu Hunter Conference in March 2022. Reviewed a paper for Journal of Quality Technology on systematic run orders for designed experiments.
Host
- John Schroedl: Avoid crash with text box Undo when we pass keystrokes to JSL. Investigate color issue in Missing Value Snapshot. Code Reviews. EA build issue. Looking into adding OpenBLAS to Windows project.
HTML5
- Bryan F: Fixed the following defects:
- JMPHTML-1291: Bar: Packed primary label lost when response axis uses Log scale.
- JMPHTML-1306: BG: Bar: Packed bars shown for hidden values. Thanks to Mike Muhlada for catching a regression after the fix, which I rectified.
- JMPHTML-1089: Dashboard tab name is not easy to be seen in Dark mode.
- JMPHTML-1321: Log scale axis incorrectly reports 0 values when scaled. Reported by CRISPR.
- JMPHTML-744: S1587221: Axis Label shows NaN when using log scale.
- Participated in a meeting hosted by Dieter and Mia regarding feedback from CRISPR.
- Began investigating the following JMP Live issue: WEBJMP-4012: In dark mode, group members pop-up box has low contrast against background. Thanks to Michael Goff and Aurora Tiffany-Davis for helping me get set up.
- Mayowa: Added support for row labels to parallel plots (JMPHTML-1279), working on adding support for max label size in heatmap for interactive html (JMPHTML-1170), investigating bug with reports failing during parsing in JMP live in Firefox (JMPHTML-1307).
- Praveena: Continued work on JMPHTML-1240 which helped in analyzing JMPHTML-1205 (adding Boolean attribute to XMLWriter::attribute).
- Josh M: JMPHTML-925: Implement Normal Log Density function in support of Naive Bayes profilers.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Hierarchical Folders: Played around and generated ideas (Jira issues) for the UI. Created a method that returns path-to-root for a given post or folder. Record the download of a post when it is included in a downloaded folder (JMP Project). Write publish records to the audit log for posts added to existing folders. When reporting access records for a folder, include only those records for immediate child posts.
- Eric H.: Continuing design discussions on and beginning to code up on-demand refresh of data in JMP Live (scheduled refresh will come after that).
- Josh M: Worked on WEBJMP-4155: Post could not be loaded using admin user.
Statistics
- Jianfeng: working on the improvement for the plot of loading matrix. Based on the EA feedback from customers, I add the filter capability to display selected number of PCs. Thanks!
- John Sall: Delivered some C++ Platform framework code to Meichen for Multivariate Embedding, which is now starting to work, from the Multivariate menu. Added a preliminary Features page. Tried out some BLAS coding on the Mac. Jeremy and Jacob are now experimenting with much better libraries. Added support for the Process Screening column property.
- Peng: continued testing my repeated measure degradation work and making changes. And fixed a scripting issue in the old Degradation platform.
Stat Documentation
- Colleen: Working on a lot of scripting index stuff – Profilers, Response Screening, and Partial Least Squares.
- Michael C: Added a Tabulate example, updated Tabulate screenshots, added note to EWMA chapter, reviewed some legacy doc changes for Karen, and reviewed Scripting Index updates for Colleen.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Testing the show excluded rows feature for MDMCC. Testing the CCB feature of removing user defined limits with chart changes. Worked on a blog post for Process Screening subgrouping features that were new in 16.1. Bug verification.
- Mark: Continue working on design of Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Continue working on testing Easy DOE with Jacob. Met with Ryan and Jacob to discuss using covering arrays to test transitions within Easy DOE. Attending (free!) 2021 Fall Technical Conference (FTC) Webinars.
- Jacob: Writing unit tests for the Define tab in Easy DOE and met with Mark Bailey and Ryan Lekivetz to discuss testing transitions across tabs. Migrating the performance testing results from the jmpqafiles SAS server to JMP Live. Testing Explore Missing Values. Assisting Jeremy Ash in testing performance of linking JMP to BLAS libraries on Mac.
Life Sciences Updates
- Meichen: Working on the multivariate embedding (t-SNE) project, which performs dimension reduction for big datasets.
Product Management
- Mia: Worked with Julian on the Workflow Builder dev presentation. Thanks for all the great questions and feedback! We’ll map out a transition plan with Ernest and Xan next week. Helped Dieter get Crispr up and running with JMP Live EA3 to evaluate font work, and shared some initial feedback with the team. The customer later told the AE that “we are killing it!” Met with Evan to talk about the roadmap for Search Bar, which might make an initial appearance in EA5. Transitioning most LS and pharma-related projects to Sam – thanks Sam, so glad to have you on board!
Technical Support
- Duane: This week started off with a bang when updates were made to 1000’s of WEBJMP Jira tickets, changing the Tech Support contact. All of the changes have been reverted back, but if anyone finds tickets that are still incorrect, just let me know. Bobby is working with Aaron K and Bob H., pushing forward with establishing the MyJMP Portal. Wendy and I are now working with Stan with regards to our Service Cloud implementation. We are seeing more customers asking about JMP and Windows 11.
Development Operations
- Jim: Updated Monterey OS (12.0.1) and Big Sur OS (11.6.1) on both pairs of UT machines. Added a system environment variable definition to each of the JMP 17 UT machines to prevent a JMP hang. Worked on the Confluence page for the Macintosh nightly build process (in progress). Numerous Jira tickets, including JMPLOC-4099, JMPTOOL-337, JMPTOOL-339, JMP-7726. Initial stages of setting up a Windows 11 VM (thanks, Nick Ruva) for JMP Pro 16.2 UTs. Perforce support.
- Bob: Met with customer care and digital marketing to discuss MyJMP Portal.
Continued documentation of nightly build, install and other process steps.
Documentation
- Qiana: Various meetings, including introduction conversations with development managers to gather thoughts and feedback on the documentation. FrameMaker tour with Sheila. Continued JMP education and Manager onboarding process.
- Sheila: Tested the Chinese help build. Updated help instructions for BRD. Ran scripts on ZH source files. Set up Jiras for EA help production and review. Finished release notes. Installed software on new computer.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on the video first for Chung Wei, getting stuff to Ryan – you can see it in Chung-Wei’s tribute article here. Worked on a couple of TS tracks and answered/files JIRA tickets. Had a ton of things to test and verify, so doing a lot of that, writing a test if necessary. Working now on Tabulate – Pack columns, trying to see if I can do a short video for EA4 for Mia.
- Lisa G: Verified a couple of contour crashes in 16.2 and worked on testing the new Configure Levels feature in GB.
- Audrey: Early Installer Testing, cleaning up JSL tests and related failures.
- Hunter: Worked on several JMP 17 EA tracks, tested with a recent fix for JMP-413, and JMP 16.2 early installer testing.
- Mike M: Completed Sikuli port to Azure by having Justin kill my old OpenStack VM. Lots of image diffs and noise from Mac. Digging into this again. Opened 2 new HTML5 bugs for Journal exports. Started looking at EA4, especially the Help portion.
- Josh L: JMP Live Jira testing and Bug verification. Call with the GIS about opening more ports and explaining why we need them. Answered some of Jacob R. JMP Live question as he moves his tests to JMP Live. Communicating JMP Live issues to test team and shepherding some of our blocking Jira-Bugs.
- Cary / Beijing JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 04 Stories in Testing
- 50 Stories in Test Ready
- 17 Bug Created in the last 7 days
- 49 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Working on replacing Jira items, adding integration tests. Found an issue that replacing child report post triggers 2 regeneration processes, see https://rndjira.sas.com/browse/WEBJMP-4186. (2) Completed control chart warning jira items. (3) Completed JMP Live 16.2 regression testing for SAS Integration and JMP Publish. (4) Other Jira stories/bugs testing.
- Da Li: (1) Testing download as project WEBJMP-3530 and preparing to add Jest tests. (2) Investigated JSL UT failures. (3) Check JMP Live UI. (4) Investigated TS report 7613449069.
- Mike Wu: (1) Presentation for Quality Week 2021. (2) Completed JMP Live 16.2 regression testing for Query Builder, HTML5 Profiler, Excel Add-in, OLE Automation. (3) Investigated TS report 7613447516. (4) Jira stories/bugs testing.
- Kimi: (1) Take on SAS Integration testing. Learning this feature, doing interactive testing and be familiar with the unit tests. (2) Investigated JSL UT failures. (3) Discuss with Audrey about the Python testing in installer validation and updated Python+Setup+and+Unit+Tests and How+to+Install+Python.
- Nala: (1) Jira stories/bugs testing for JMP Publish and Post Details panel.
Note from Shannon
Bryan Fricke was kind enough to let me share this cute pic of his daughter Elise dressed as Umbreon (a Pokemon, for those of you who are not in the know). Hope all the kids out there both young and old enjoy Halloween!
Her costume is much better than this one…lesson learned! Have a fun and not-too-scary Halloween weekend!
