Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 18, 2022!
Please respond to Maanasa’s Meet the Experts survey for Discovery Europe. The dates for Meet the Experts are March 10th, 22nd and 24th and the sessions will run from 7:30-11:00am. Please use this form to indicate your availability by Thursday, February 24thand list topics you could cover with our customers.
We have now reached our JMP 17.0 Feature Freeze milestone. If you have features that are still changing or if you plan to continue to update strings and make changes requiring significant tester or writer attention, please add your feature to the JMP 17 Late Features page in Confluence. You should copy the template table and fill it in with details of the potential impact to downstream teams.
Also, please review and update feature pages for work that you are involved in developing and testing. Please pay special attention to the boxes on the Feature Readiness checklist at the end of the pages and check them off as you reach those milestones.
Thanks very much to Evan McCorkle for presenting on the new JMP 17 search feature at this week’s JMP Dev meeting. If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording in SharePoint here or here in my public folder. You can find the search feature by clicking Help > Search or using the shortcut “Control+, ” on Windows. As he indicated in the meeting, Evan is very interested in having internal users try out the search and rate the results you see in an effort to improve search relevance. Please let me know if you want to present at a future session!
Thanks very much to Nicole Jones for sharing the following in honor of Michael Crotty’s 15th anniversary with JMP:
Please join me in congratulating Michael Crotty as he celebrates his 15th JMP Anniversary! For Michael it is truly happy JMP Anniversary – Michael started his full-time career with JMP and we are appreciative that he continues to be a part of JMP Statistical Discovery LLC.
Michael started his career in JMP as a Statistical Tester on Feb. 13, 2007. As a tester, Michael supported various Multivariate platforms as well as Reliability and Survival platforms. Michael’s testing of the Bootstrap feature lead to a series of blog posts that received lots of positive feedback both internally and externally. Michael was also very instrumental in the early adoption of the JSL unit testing framework and the use of covering arrays.
Years later, Michael joined the documentation team, where he provided statistical content in the form of PDFs and online help. In addition to providing statistical content, Michael has been involved in revamping the entries for statistical platforms in the Scripting Index, writes scripts to create the book reports that the writers use to manage their work and was the only one to review and edit developer strings for many years. As the documentation team lead, Michael has serves as an excellent advocate communicating the needs of his team, mentoring interns and coordinating documentation initiatives such as rewriting old chapters and starting to automate steps of the production process. Most recently, Michael single-handedly coordinated movement of documentation defects to Jira, he recreated and tested the documentation team reports after the migration, and was an integral member of JMP’s Jira discussion group that established how the group would configure and use Jira features. He also helped triage statistical team defects in preparation for finalizing JMP’s migration to Jira at the end of 2021.
It has been a pleasure working with Michael over the years, I appreciate his willingness to work on initiatives to improve our processes for both Testing and Documentation. In addition to his daily work, Michael has also been a regular presenter at JSM and JMP Discovery Conferences over the years and is the developer and maintainer of the Imbalanced Classification JMP Add-In.
Thanks Michael and Happy JMP Anniversary!
General Announcements
- 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 17.0 Feature Freeze - 2/18/22 ß TODAY!!!
- JMP 17.0 EA7 – 3/11/22
- JMP 17.0 EA8 – 5/3/22
- JMP 17.0 EA9 – 7/8/22
- JMP 17 Code Freeze – 7/20/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
- Please visit this page to view bug verification lists for JMP 17.0.
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Thanks to Russ, Xan, Chris, Mark and Karen for recent feedback as I continue to work on Passing Bablok regression for JMP 17.
- Peng: Continued testing and polishing the Repeated Measures Degradation platform. In particular, resolved issues with graphics while transformation is involved. Besides that, I worked with Leo on his training materials.
Stat Documentation
- Colleen: Working on the Scripting Index entries for Text Explorer. Michael will review them and the changes will get pushed sometime next week.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Assisting Brad and Joseph with design of Easy DOE. Assisting Jacob with testing Easy DOE. Reviewed method comparisons and assisting Jianfeng with design of Passing-Bablok regression in Bivariate and testing the associated profiler. Reviewing dissolution curve analysis in Fit Curve for Clay. Working on UI/UX issues in DOE and statistics development process. Updated old add-in for combinations and permutations in the File Exchange area of the JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing Explore Outliers, working on tests for Robust PCA Outliers with Randomized SVD, and updating existing tests for Quantile Range Outliers and Robust Fit Outliers due to JMP-10699. Testing MSA Design, updating existing tests due to new diagnostics in JMP 17 and working on tests for designs with nested factors. Testing Blas and Lapack numeric routines (JMP-10260). Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Worked with John Schroedl to learn how to deliver Genetic Marker Statistics platform icons and make them appear in the correct locations and delivered the files. Worked with developers on usability questions, including Michael G and Josh M on UI “drawers” and JMP Live Style Guide. Thanks to Josh for starting the style guide by documenting the use of drawers in JMP Live. Presented UX research on tabular output in Graph Builder to Xan and Mia. Held separate meetings with UX Workstream groups for development process and style. Worked with Ernest on the usability script for Workflow Builder.
- Mia: Updated feature pages and Late Features list. Prepared feature details for Hyde for training and Landra for EA page updates.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Jim: Collaborated with Michael Hecht, Audrey, Kimi and Nan on JMPTOOL-381, JMP-10817 and JMP-4739.
- Myron: Started working on the doc script update the Google-related metadata in the help files. Finished up IPS mac processing updates to the crash pipeline (JMPTOOL-342). Started working on the API replacement for Sirius in the crash pipeline. Caught up on some memoQ documentation.
Documentation
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Working on all things “workflow builder” and keeping up with Action Recorder fixes, as they are directly related. Meeting again today with group to discuss remaining JMP 17 WFB features. Working on WFB TS tracks and writing JSL internal tests from those issues. JMP Clinical requested a feature fix for Tabulate (JMP-10778). Attended the Bejing testing meeting with Audrey Wednesday night and learned some fun things about their Festivals.
- Nick H: Continuing work on converting C++ Unit Tests to the JSL Unit Test Stream and cleaned up a number of Unit Test failures. Filed Jira issues related to the behavior of Get/Set Items for Radio Box and Check Box in a sorted Table Box – trying to make the behavior consistent with string and numeric columns. Alongside other verifications I have been testing Dan’s new feature to support private report windows. Discussed with Audrey becoming primary support for JMP Starter.
- Hunter: Submitted more Search window results feedback and some feature testing, defect verification, investigated one EA track, and submitted crashes for Myron for verification of JMPTOOL-342.
- Lisa: Worked on testing and verifying addition of hover label font preference, hover label behavior after excluding unrelated rows, and investigating EA tracks.
- Josh L: JMP Live Publish on client testing. Verifying stories and bugs. Worked on moving 2 folks off Azure and on to AWS.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 03 Stories in Testing
- 47 Stories in Test Ready
- 17 Bugs Created in the last 7 days. (Note JMP Live did a white box test)
- 21 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Learning more about PublishOnClient, such as publishing process, web sessions, payload etc. (2) Open a few bugs for PoC UI. (3) • Verified a few JSL unit tests bugs, opened some news. (4) Testing publishing with existing data table with PoC, writing Jest tests. (5) Work with Kimi to design the "Data Refresh" testing scenarios.
- Da Li: (1) Test bugs/stories, add corresponding UTs for OSIPI (JMP-7020, JMP-8546), Import(JMP-6172 , JMP-5923, JMP-10675 ), Export(JMP-10668, JMP-10556 ). (2) Investigated UR failures and fix it. The root cause of the failures is JMP-10675. (3) Test JMP Live stories/bugs about space and download. (4) Start to write migration tests of JMP Live. (5) Reviewed "Data Refresh" testing scenarios and added comments.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17.0 HTML5 and desktop bugs regression testing. (2) Worked with Audrey, Jim and Kimi to discuss the strategy of upgrade 3rd party software on nightly run unit tests machines. And test the latest version of ODBC drivers. (3) Tested AWS migration of JMP Admin Tool against a new server. (4) Reviewed "Data Refresh" testing scenarios and added comments.
- Kimi: (1) Worked with Mike to test the latest version of Oracle driver and investigated how to update/uninstall/reinstall Oracle drivers. (2) Design the "Data Refresh" testing scenarios, see WEBJMP-4562. (3) Testing Data Refresh in JMP Live. Learn Query Builder, test some basic scenarios for SAS, ODBC and Query Builder. (4) Fix unit tests failures of Formula Depot. (5) Maintain Beijing team's Jenkins server.
- Nala: (1) Tested Korean support in Text Explorer, see JMP-3537. (2) Investigated the failures of JMP Live Publish on Mac. It seems the behavior are different on different machine or for different JMP Live servers, see WEBJMP-4653. (3) Investigated a customer's question in JMP Community about how to use user-defined dictionary in Text Explorer, see JMP-10758. (4) Investigated country code error in map files for South Sudan, see JMP-10740. (5) Reviewed "Data Refresh" testing scenarios and added comments.
Data Discovery
- Dan S: More work on session file scripts. Added support for private report windows, which can be several times faster than visible/invisible reports in situations where a platform is created for temporary use (extract report, create picture) and immediately closed. Using the JMP doc example for Invisible reports we see a 5x speedup:
- Dave B: Fixed histseg and treemap tooltip positions when rows hidden/excluded or frame size changes, added an option to not show missing values in NumberColBox, added extra user information in addition to perforce ID to jmprunner messages.
- Xan: Added support for multiple summary statistics in a single Caption element for Tabular Data in GB feature.
- Evan: Working on improving CJK support in JMP Search.
DOE
- Brad: Working on a review for a Technometrics paper. Doing a DOE research project with Dibyen Majumdar (University of Illinois - Chicago) and Ryan Lekivetz. Working with Joseph and Mark on Easy DOE.
- Joseph: Worked on the Report tab implementation for Easy DOE and also refined the Guided Analyze tab functionality.
Host
- Paul: Working on the WMS portion of the Open Street Map server. Helped Russ get Illumina IDAT file supported on the Mac, and tested out additions to our decryption routines to handle the encrypted v1 file format. The unencrypted V3 format should now be supported and we are waiting on Legal approval to change a compile time #define that will enable the DES decryption code, and v1 file support. Troubleshooting/investigating issues with reports on activations and matching that up against sales force data.
- John Schroedl: Pushed Windows implementation of more direct pixel access via GPicture::getPixelsRaw, setPixelsRaw, etc. (JMP-953). Crash investigations. Visual Studio help. Look into some static analysis issues. Git in 4 weeks, week 3.
- Michael H: Got MATLAB working on Mac without the need to disable System Integrity Protection.
HTML5
- John Powell: Prepared for sprint review meeting (spoiler alert: 68 Jira items done in Sprint 7!) Adjusted the Interactive HTML JMP Live client code to accommodate JMP Live changes causing report updates to fail WEBJMP-4652. Started investigating Interactive HTML accessibility compliance issues mentioned in the report found here.
- Mayowa: Fixed bug with Parallel plot axis for categorical variables which was causing a mismatch between parallel plots in JMP and Interactive HTML (JMPHTML-1233, JMPHTML-1323). JMP now supports setting the hover label font size in preferences, made changes to support it in Interactive HTML (JMPHMTL-1138).
JMP Live
- Michael G: Whitebox testing for Publish on Client. Various bug fixes. Modified routing on space page to retain folder context between file and report views. Dynamically size POC pages to fit in the JMP Dialog.
- Aurora: Publish on Client bug fixes. Continued discussion on how best to support Data Options in UI and JSL. Completed the prep work for adding the new access type "data administrator". Stop users from manually updating data tables that are configured to be refreshable. Whitebox testing.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a great weekend! This seems like an application where you’d really want to strive for backward compatibility!
