Welcome to the JMP Development Update for December 10, 2021!
Important announcement: The jmprunners and Jenkins CI will remain turned on during the holiday week. However, daily JMP build, installer and unit test processes will be turned off, and JMP Live auto-deployment will also be disabled. The last set of nightly executable builds and installers for 2021 will be dated Thursday, December 23.
I hope that everyone will enjoy the holiday break, forget about work for a while, and come back refreshed! If you do push any holiday code, you should be notified if you break a build. However, please be aware that we have experienced SAS IT outages over past holiday breaks that have impacted Jenkins and other systems. If you note anything like this, please enter a ServiceNow ticket to report the issue.
I hope you all saw my email earlier in the week, but in case you missed the announcement, Trish O’Grady has been promoted to manager of the JMP R&D localization group. Congratulations, Trish! Localization developer Howard Chen and localization tester Angelita Nitti will report to Trish. Trish has been our longtime project manager and has been acting as team lead, and in her new role will continue to manage all aspects of L10N planning and execution for JMP’s many product releases and deliverables.
Just a reminder that JMP 17 EA5 feature pages need to be updated and feature videos need to be to Mia by EOD on Monday, December 13. The product management team is hoping to notify EA members that EA5 is available before they check out for the holidays…just in case some of them can’t resist playing with JMP 17 new features during the break! See the "EA Freeze to Blast" schedule for details.
**Mia also asked me to say a special thank you to development team members and technical staff who volunteered to participate in the Meet the Experts session at JMP Discovery Summit Japan next week. **
If you have new icon requests for JMP 17, please read this How-To Confluence page and follow the instructions to enter a new Story under the JMP 17 Icon Requests epic (JMP-1017). Please include the requested details and any example sketches you might have. Ryan Dewitt has kindly offered to assist with new icon requests for the time being.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s details about Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks with crashes selected.
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Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 12/10/2021 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
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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
HTML5
- John Powell: Held an HTML5 sprint planning meeting. Participated in the JMP Live Steering Committee meeting and JMP Live Retrospective meeting. Attended the JMP Live Iteration Demo. Fixed JMPHTML-971 Formatting of % Total Color Role Statistic in heatmap hover labels.
Fixed JMPHTML-956 Sentiment Analysis text preview control not shown. Discussed automated testing of user interaction with interactive HTML content in JMP Live with Steve Chen.
- Mayowa: recorded an EA video for parallel plots in interactive html, participated in HTML5 team sprint planning and scrum meetings, set up JMP live on local machine, started looking into bug with bubble plot label font size in JMP live (JMPHTML-1125).
- Praveena: Worked on JMPHTML-1275 (Remove the emphasis for table row cell values, since the font color is currently supported) , JMPHTML-581 (Fix for setting the left padding for Table inside BorderBox), JMPHTML-930 (Use background color same as JMP for table row selection).
- Josh M: JMPHTML-1445: Force standalone profiler with categorical responses to static image (ahead of EA5 – because JMPHTML-869 not resolved). JMPHTML-1446: Force Partition, Bootstrap Forest and Boosted Trees profilers with a transform column response to static image (ahead of EA5 – because JMPHTML-982 not resolved) Triaging of Naïve Bayes profiler defects ahead of EA5. Investigation into Confidence Intervals for Fit Model Least Squares profilers in Interactive HTML.
- Bryan F: Worked on a couple of regressions. One was with the ability to resize graphs on JMP Live, JMPHTML-1440. I reworked the preview of the graph while is was resizing to account for the increased resolution. Also, on WEBJMP-3410, I had to correct a regression on JMP Live where the icons on the left and right of the toolbar that extends below the main navigation bar were too close to the edges of the screen. I also participated in VAPO’s Sprint 7 planning meeting.
JMP Live
- Michael G: Added a folder treeview picker to publish on client dialog. Made protocol updates for publish on client. Added a command palette to JMP Live. Added node script to dump GraphQL schema in one file so devs can import it into Postman. Various bug fixing.
- Aurora: Continuing work on "publish on client" proof of concept. Created JMP Live server code to publish post(s) to a space or to a folder using the publish on client payload that is in review now. Looking good for a small proof of concept demo next Friday. Briefly investigated a database user change at Regeneron. Participated in JMP Live iteration demo.
- Josh M: WEBJMP-3747 - Create UI for column paging/filtering in data table viewer (in review).
Statistics
- Peng: Made some cosmetic changes to the repeated measures degradation platform. Worked on a newly reported crash in Degradation due to locale. Working on suggestions Bill Meeker sent last night for repeated measure degradation in the hopes of adding the most important to JMP 17 EA5.
- Laura C-S: Finished updating the topPlan and topAction for Multiple-Group Analysis (MGA) in SEM. Fixed a few other MGA bugs along the way. We’ll be able to start testing the UI soon thanks to this milestone! Picked up a new desktop and got it set up for development.
- Jianfeng: Completed work on equivalence test for two proportions for JMP 17 EA5. Detailed information can be found in this confluence page.
- Annie: Added support for saving limits to a limits file in the EWMA Control Chart platform and reading in control limit statistics from a limits file. (Jira JMP-6231)
- Elizabeth: Worked on Chi-square tests and z-intervals for one parameter distribution GLMs within GLMM platform. 2nd Mastering JMP webinar on mixed models.
Stat Documentation
- Colleen: Worked on a lot of doc defects. I also did some rearranging in the MSA chapter and started working on the NF defects for MSA. Added some help keys as well.
- Michael C: Stat defect triage with Nicole. Updates to Mixed Models doc for new report titles. Reviewed some doc updates for Karen and Colleen.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Reviewing documentation, helping TS with a question about multiple Ys and phases in CCB, testing the new Get/Save Limits commands for EWMA.
- Mark: Designing Analyze and Predict steps for Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Writing unit tests for Easy DOE Data Entry step. Helped Laura Lancaster with an example using data with limit of detection for analysis in Distribution. Answering question in JMP Community. Editing DOE chapter in ASQ Handbook for Six Sigma Black Belts.
- Jacob: Testing Easy DOE, writing unit tests for the Model tab. Testing Design Explorer and investigating some small differences with Compare Designs. Testing MSA Design prototype for nested factors. Looking into feedback from Craig Hales on the Derivative function.
Product Management
- Dan V: Interviewing for the JMP PM UX position. Had our final team meeting of 2021. The product management team conducted a retrospective of 2021 and planning major initiatives in 2022.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Myron: Completed updates to the crash system to accept the Mac “.ips” crash files by deploying Michael’s newer symbolize code onto a Monterey Mac, hooking that Mac to the process, updating code and SQL specifics to work with “.crash” file extensions. Looking into why Stringbot’s owner assignment code sometimes misassigns items. Monitoring memoQ and jmptool space and backups.
- Shannon: Migrated defects tagged with CONVERT2JIRA by Michael C and Nicole. Continued moving components, defects and Jira issues assigned to Sheila over to Qiana with some work still to do…
- Jim: Minimal assistance with the mac crash symbolizer interim machine (thanks to Myron) and Perforce support.
Documentation
- Qiana: Created job description for Senior Technical Writer position. Worked with Christine to post the position. Began screening applicants and watching HIreVue videos. Working on several JIRAs around 16.1 JMP Live Help and 16.2 English and translated Help; currently blocked because of permission errors on servers but will continue working with IT to resolve the issue.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey: 16.2 Installer Testing, reviewing 2021 with the Beijing Testing team.
- Mandy: Worked on 17 JIRAs , verifying and testing. Some work with Workflow builder. Responded to several JMP17EA4 tracks and crashes.
- Hunter: More JMP 16.2 final installer testing, responded to JMP 17 EA 4 tracks and opened one JIRA issue affecting projects (JMP-9292), and met with Nicole on a project window crash isolated to her system (JMP-9304).
- Mike M: Busy week with Help publishes, redirects, and content changes. Worked on Installer testing for 16.2 and opened some new issues. Worked thru 2 separate CPP unit test failures with the proper developers.
- Josh L. JMP Live 17 now has a database installer. We will be shipping PostgreSQL 13.X. I have upgraded 3 machines from PostgreSQL 11 to 13. Since we have seen no issues, I will continue to upgrade machines. JMP and JMP Live 16.2 regression testing and trying to keep up with my JIRA queue.
- Cary / Beijing JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 7 Stories in Testing
- 50 Stories in Test Ready
- 18 Bug Created in the last 7 days
- 23 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing team:
- JMP 16.2 Trial Windows installer has been rebuilt because of JMP-8893. The testing of the build has been done, details in JMPTEST-417 (Cary team + Beijing team) and BRDSTG-3252 (Beijing team updates)
- Completed JMP Live 16.2 installer testing, details in BRDSTG-3253.
- We have a series of meetings with Audrey over the past two weeks (one-on-one meetings, Beijing annually summary of 2021, JMP Testing info by Audrey)
- Eric Wang: (1) Completed JMP Live 16.2 installer testing. (2) Tested join space request. Currently no API to send request, added tests for lib functions. (3) Testing nested groups, added integration tests. (4) Verified bugs related to leaked large objects. (5) Prepared annual summary slides.
- Da Li: (1) Tested JMP export improvement: JMP-2912, S1548966: Saving TSV files through JSL saves files as CSV and update corresponding UT case. (2) Tested JMP Live stories/bugs. (3) Prepared annual summary slides. (4) Download and share materials for TiD2021, see this page.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 16.2 Trial rebuilt Windows installer testing completed. (2) Track the JMP 16.2 installer ZH and JA Help page search issue. (3) HTML5 profiler regression testing started with JMPHTML-766. (4) Investigated the JMP Clinical 7.1.2 and 8.1 Hotfix download error issue. (5) Prepared annual summary slides.
- Kimi: (1) JMP 16.2 Trial rebuilt Windows installer testing completed. (2) Investigated the python problem on M1 chipset, updated the Python installation doc (3) Investigate the failures of UT Dashboard (4) Found a JMP Testing Dashboard issue "Dashboard doesn’t report timeout issue". And discussed with Audrey. (5) Prepared annual summary slides.
- Nala: (1) JMP 16.2 Trial rebuilt Windows installer testing completed. (2) Investigated a JMP Publish issue. JMP crashes on Mac when searching in Publish Wizard, details refer to WEBJMP-4363. (3) Prepared annual summary slides.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed some printing and sizing problems with the journal script box, fixed 3d plots ignoring setting to turn of major axes labels, fixed problems creating large bitmaps and graphs in long journals and issues journaling separate selected parts of a report that are in a lineup box.
- Dan S: JMP 17 updates for JRP and Session files that are auto-generated to create JSL that reproduces the contents of one or more windows. These scripts are also generated from Save Scripts (All Objects) in red-triangle menus, and also appear in the enhanced log window snapshots. Fixed selection cursor edit-copy so that text clippings are generated by default in most cases. Fixes for axis borders and inside tick marks, and some additional Mac ARM fixes for double->int conversion.
- Xan: Updated markup text drawing so that word wrapping and background fill are consistent with plain text drawing.
- Ernest: Workflow Builder – refactoring code, first stab at journaling.
- Evan: Preparing search dialog for inclusion in EA5.
DOE
- Brad: Writing a paper introducing a family of orthogonal mixed level screening designs.
Host
- John Schroedl: Wired up Ctrl+, as the accelerator for Evan’s new search feature. Researching using SVG vector icons converted to WPF may allow for less-blurry icons at higher DPI.
Note from Shannon
Have a great weekend, all! Hope you all have your holiday shopping all done and found what you needed! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
