Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 25, 2022!
Thanks for all the help reviewing open JMP 17 Story items in Jira this week. Now that we have passed our JMP 17 Feature Freeze milestone, I’ve been moving items that we do not plan to address in this release into 18.0:OPEN. In some cases, developers have asked me to “demote” stories into Feature Request items, which I’m glad to help you do if needed. If you have not looked at your remaining Story items open in 17, please do so and let me know which ones need to stay open in 17 and which can be moved out of the track.
Also, please send Susan Conaghan any ideas you might have for new Tips of the Day for JMP 17. You can put the details in https://rndjira.sas.com/browse/JMPDOC-1386.
Thanks to HTML5 team manager John Powell for sharing the great news that developer Paul Spychala has accepted an offer to join the HTML5 team starting on March 16th. Paul and his father ran their own company, VisiScience, which developed software used in biological simulations. Paul received a degree in Computer Science from NC State. We’ll look forward to welcoming Paul soon!
Thanks to Drew Foglia of the JMP Life Sciences team for demoing VSCode at the JMP Dev meeting yesterday. If you missed the meeting, you can see a recording here. The life sciences team has recently switched to this editor for their JSL script development work for JMP Clinical and have found it to be an excellent tool.
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing the details on Beta/Crash/Telemetry files for the last 2 weeks with crashes selected.
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Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the weeks of 2/18/2022 and 2/25/2022 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- 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.
HTML5
- John Powell:
- Held Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings for Sprint 7 and a planning meeting for JMP HTML Sprint 8. Met to discuss JMP Live and Interactive HTML accessibility compliance issues mentioned in the report found here. Restarted shelved work for a JMP Live Local Data Filter(LDF) feature that creates a URL with LDF settings to share WEBJMP-348 .
- Answered some last minute questions from our Software Developer candidate, who subsequently accepted our offer! Invited Paul Spychala, our new hire to attend JMP Discovery Summit Europe before his start date. Thanks to Diana Levey and Allison Hines for invitation examples. Started following hiring manager steps listed in the Manager New Hire Checklist.
- Investigated an issue on the JMP User Community where a customer ran into an Interactive HTML bug, which I logged and provided a work-around. Questioned and eventually found out why I received an oddly worded notification about a post deleted from JMP Public.
- Met with members of the JMP R&R team (that’s “Recruiting and Retention” not “Rest and Relaxation”).
- Praveena: Worked on bugs JMPHTML-1526, where reference area with opacity 0 is drawn opaque, and JMPHTML-1470, where the axis values are unexpectedly shown alongside range reference label.
JMP Live
- Josh M: Worked on WEBJMP-4441: Minor CSS and styling adjustments, WEBJMP-4528: The link is "null" after "share > copy link" in data view, WEBJMP-4530: The content is "undefined" after click "share > Embed code (card)" in data view, and WEBJMP-3665: Create dialog to display column properties.
- Aurora: Added new access type "data administrator". Publish on Client bug fixes. Removed all pre-publish-on-client publish code. Investigating logging failure.
Statistics
- Peng: Continued testing and polishing Repeated Measures Degradation, on constant rate models in particular this week. Continued working with Leo to wrap up his most recent training material preparation. Work with Bill Meeker for his preparation on his upcoming short courses of teaching reliability using JMP.
- Elizabeth: Working a fix for the crash in JMP-3017. Ran into a crash when exporting data to SAS from JMP while trying to test the fix for my crash and identified the changelist it began in for Bryan Boone.
- Laura C-S: Fixed several issues that came up after pushing all the multiple-group analysis (MGA) code in SEM. Adapted all the Save Columns commands for MGA and started adapting the Profiler too. Met with UI/UX style team. Brainstormed with Karen about a potential study for UI feedback. Met with Nicole and Michael to discuss internship applications.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continued work to update Scripting Index for Logistic; reviewed SI updates for Colleen in Text Explorer and Partial Least Squares; string reviews in preparation for first string handoff.
- Colleen: Scripting index revisions for Text Explorer and Partial Least Squares. Also some work on the Principal Components Analysis chapter.
- Karen: Working on Passing Bablok and Sample Size Explorer strings (with Caleb).
Stat Testing
- Mark: Working with Brad and Joseph on design of Easy DOE. Working with Jacob on testing Easy DOE. Working on two teams, the Functional UX Group and the UX Development Process group with Bryan Fricke, including a usability study for MSA Design with Ryan and Jacob. Working with Nicole on testing new Fit Passing-Bablok feature in Bivariate. Working with Nicole on responding to EA feedback about Equivalence Test in Contingency platform. Created Jira ticket suggesting a new group in Scripting Index for Associative Arrays.
- Jacob: Testing MSA Design, working on tests for designs with nested factors. Testing Explore Outliers, working on tests for the new tabs in the univariate options. Collaborating with Mark Bailey and Ryan Lekivetz on an MSA Design usability study. Updating tests for Easy DOE and Accelerated Life Test Design.
- Tonya: Testing changes to the Manage Limits platform – detection limits and measurement sigma. Also testing metadata and measurement sigma changes in variability and MSA. Reviewed the OSI distribution changes that Colleen made. Testing Run Chart. Testing Get Limits in CUSUM and EWMA summary table additions. Bug verification.
- Fang: Responded to EA feedback. Cleaned up unit tests and investigated failures on Windows 11. Continued working on unit tests for Decision Threshold wrt how target level is specified or not specified in JSL during platform launch. Tested shelved fix for crash in Fit Mixed.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Worked with UX Workstreams
- Presentation Layer: Discussed using a 5 second test with an online survey service to get feedback on visual style.
- Developer Process: Reviewed usability script for MSA design developed by Jacob Rhyne, Mark Bailey, Ryan Lekivetz.
- Functional UX: Met with multiple SEs to get their concerns about JMP usability. Split the group into two. One is focusing on developing an updated Fit Y by X (bivariate personality). The other is going to focus on consistency of terminology between platforms which relates to the JMP Style Guide.
- Provided a wireframe and usability feedback on Workflow Builder.
- Provided a wireframe and usability feedback on new preview feature on table dialogs.
- Debugged issue with HTML5 build system and developed a solution for a dark mode issue with profiler buttons and delivered code.
- I added JMP UX to the JMP Process page and updated JMP 17 Feature pages for the features for which I’ve provided usability feedback.
Life Sciences Updates
- Meichen: Working on the UMAP option for Multivariate Embedding platform, also created a “Consort Flow Diagram” report for JMP Clinical.
Development Operations
- Jim: Verified fixed and reported new ASAN, LEAKS and Assertion Failure Jira tickets. Started building JMP Pro Trial. Performed software and OS updates on multiple Mac and Win testing and build machines.
- Myron: Chased down Stringbot issues with unicode expressions (JMP-10749, JMPTOOL-394). Spent some time digging through testbot logs for owner assignment problems and trying to figure out the unknown crash frames Hunter reported in JMPTOOL-342.
Documentation
- Qiana: Attended an overview on Stringbot and Scanbot. Met with Trish and Michael to discuss URL links for Help. Completed the Manager Essentials course. Completed mapping out Chris Barrett’s onboarding plan and started those items that need to be done beforehand. Met with Trish and Audrey to decide Help delivery dates to QA. Met with writers to map out EA7dates and discussed other relevant writing topics. Ongoing JMP Style Guide discussion. Began going through JIRAs with Pubs Affected = unsure and blank.
- Susan: Fixed JMPDOC-176, testing and updating (in Perforce & on the Community) the JMP EN PDF Documentation add-in. Working with Trish on figuring out the best way to deliver JMP Live images, scripts, & sign in details to translators. Working with Curt on JMP Student Subscription documentation JIRAs and updates for 17. Met with UX team and researching how to improve consistency in UI terms.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Investigated a workflow builder scripting crash with modeless window. Worked on a few TS tracks related to WFB and very slow Anonymize performance on large tables. Investigated issues reported by John Sall, one with an ASAN release build that Michael fixed, and another when trying to cancel opening a large table. Chased down issues with a baseline/testCPPUT.jsl test failure. Met with Professional Development group for JMP with a great conversation by Phil Kay about career paths and suggestions for managers to retain talent. Tested a DF build for Dan – selection, conditional and Animation. Verifying defects and adding tests.
- Nick H: Verifications and testing a number of new small changes and features for a few JSL items. This has involved adding/evolving lots of tests in the JSL framework. Some key features tested have included, new WindowView args for New Window and platform windows, the latter of which creates a new private option for report windows. Been working with Dan Schikore to verify some of these new window options.
- Mike M: Image diffs are running very slowly due to baseline, log size and crashing tests so it’s been difficult to catch up since I’m seeing results of changes from DAYS ago. The weekend should catch us up. Currently working on debugging a noisy image test that is inconsistent when calling Random Uniform() from inside a Transform Column() statement. Opened new CCB regression from Sikuli failure. Late last week opened 3 bugs on WEBJMP relating to Publish to File.
- Hui: Finished testing GB Treemap new feature of ‘Orientation Bias’ and reported issues on HTML5, Journal, and Treemap. Thanks to Andrew for working on the nice feature and John S. for the wonderful idea. Met with Steve for testing tools and configuration for interactive HTML5 automation testing. Thanks to Steve for the time. Worked on a customer dataset for HTML5 issues. Thanks to Xan who sent in the data and case.
- Lisa: Verifications and adding image tests where possible, cleaning up some older hover label open bugs that have been resolved, and provided example of a histogram border chart in GB for an EA track.
- Hunter: Search testing on different builds of JMP, sent list of projects defects to Aaron see if they can be fixed for EA 7, and defect verification.
- Audrey: Discusions about Help delivery dates, revising Help checklist pages. Investigating how to access and manipulate tables underlying JiraBot data.
- Josh L: JMP Live Publish on Client testing, adding more reports to the JMP Live regression script. Verifying Jira stories and bugs.
Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 05 Stories in Testing
- 28 Stories in Test Ready
- 13 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 44 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Test ‘publish with existing data’ feature, add Jest tests. (2) Verify PoC Bugs. (3) Updating JMP Live JSL unit tests and end-to-end tests due to PoC changes. (4) Prepare end-to-end knowledge sharing slides.
- Da Li: (1) Test bugs/stories, add corresponding UTs for Import(JMP-10756, JMP-5915, JMP-5916, JMP-10754 ), Export( JMP-8445). (2) Investigated UR failures and fix it. The root cause of the failures is JMP-10754--. (3) Test JMP Live stories/bugs about download. (4) Continue to write migration UT cases, finish pre-migration environment setup. (5) Investigated TS report 7613519953.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17.0 HTML5 and desktop bugs regression testing. (2) Investigated upgrading the ODBC driver to newest versions party software versions of the unit test machines JMPTOOL-388 and sent Jim with the detailed upgrading instructions already. (3) Complete 2 rounds of testing of JMP 16 Trial activation against AWS production server for checking the data in log: JMPTESTBJ-1306
- Kimi: (1) Investigated the UT failures which were caused by the Python upgrade on the nightly run machines. And discussed with Jim about the upgrade strategy. See JMPTOOL-381. (2) Investigated Python integration for tensorflow function with Anaconda/Python.org, see JMP-6770. (3) Fix UT Failures on Catalina for Formula Depot (4) Test JMP Live bugs/stories about Publish, data view. (5) Fix the failure in Beijing team's Jenkins.
- Nala: (1) Testing JMP Publish related stories/bugs. (2) Test new function about selected report in Select Reports pane, see WEBJMP-4678. (3) Took pre-work training of Manager Essentials Course. (4) Learning the new feature workflow builder and JMP search.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed a few issues with tab list with the help of John Schroedl and Dan, fixed a treemap hover label problem, worked with Michael H to investigate a problem with the mac python script to do a windows test build, fixed a few rememberInitialState() problems, and created a test case for a user crash.
- Dan S: Added <<
- Ernest: Fixed a couple of off-by-one SelectList bugs. Workflow Builder: changing to use a “drawer” for options, work on debugging support.
- Xan: Working on some marker jitter issues.
- Evan: Working to parallelize search.
DOE
- Caleb: Fixed some longstanding bugs in ALT Design and continued triaging JIRA tickets. I also prepared a discussion presentation for the Stu Hunter Conference.
- Joseph: Continued work on the Easy DOE Report tab, addressed several layout, sizing and spacing issues, addressed string work and worked on triaging/closing out bugs.
Host
- Worked on JMP-6770 for Anaconda Python module Tensorflow. To properly call Anaconda Python, and especially witin an Anaconda venv, requires using the Path() and Python Sys Path() arguments. Path having the user’s path to the python DLL within the desired virtual environment AND the sys.path values appropriate for that virtual environment when the environment is activated. c:\...\blah> conda activate myVenv
Python Init ( Path(“…/python3x.dll”), Python Sys Path({ “”, …. } ) )
Given the right incantation of Python Init() parameters this works as designed.
- Last Friday, Requested encryption approval from Rachel Smith, for DES encryption for support of v1 IDAT files. Heard back that she is coordinating with the export compliance support to begin looking at this for us.
- BlackDuck scanning revealed issue with Jar for SAS 9.3. SAS has officially stated it will not be fixing 9.3, so we now need to remove 9.3 support from JMP 17.0, and If we were to make a 16.2.1 or 16.3, 9.3 support would need to be removed there as well. Attended Shaun Lambs’ SAS App security meeting.
- Pushed update to OpenGL Math library ( Portable/h/glm ). BlackDuck indicated we had an older version, so it has now been updated to current.
- John Schroedl: Hover tips were wrong for some report tables b/c tip was located using binary search zlkupJS which is not correct when running non-English and searching an English-sorted list. Fixing drag/drop feedback UI issue in projects. Pushed getPixelsRaw, setPixelsRaw functions. Allow portable context menu to show for combobox.
Note from Shannon
As I shared in this morning’s call for updates, this article in the Guardian shared some details about Xan’s Wordle start word programming project. I noticed later in the morning that Arati interviewed Xan about the project on the JMP blog here.
(Don’t worry if you’re not playing Wordle. You can be in the control group! Hope you have a great weekend!)
