Welcome to the JMP Development update for March 4, 2022!
Thanks for all your work on strings this week! Our initial portable UI handoff for JMP 17 will use the results of this weekend’s Stringbot run. We will have a second handoff for portable UI coming near the end of May. We are almost ready to freeze code for JMP EA7 at the end of the day next Friday, March 11. Please update your feature pages with any important late features and fixes that our customers should look at when they download EA7. Also, continue to add any items with downstream impact to the JMP 17 Late Features page in Confluence.
Thanks very much to Geoff Mann for showing off JMP Clinical 17 updates at yesterday’s dev meeting. If you missed it, you can see a recording here. Geoff showcased changes to JMP C reports and shared the details of various performance improvements gained by transitioning to a JSL-backed architecture. Thanks to Dan Schikore for his extensive work with the team during the transition and also to the numerous JMP developers who have responded to bug reports and feature requests from the JMP Clinical. JMP C has just kicked off their initial EA program with the FDA being a particular focus, and they look forward to releasing a second EA iteration this month when we freeze for EA7.
Thanks very much to Audrey Shull for hosting a Jira lunch and learn yesterday. If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here. Audrey reviewed a number of common operations and fielded numerous questions from JMP team members. I’d like to reiterate that both Audrey and I are glad to answer Jira questions, no matter how small, so don’t hesitate to reach out on Teams if you are wondering how to do something.
John Sall practiced his plenary talk titled “It’s Always Something” for JMP Discovery Europe today. If you missed it and would like a preview prior to the event, you can find the recording here . Please send John any comments and feedback you have.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing the details of this week’s Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks with crashes selected. The JMP Live report is here: Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 3/4/2022 | JMP Live (sas.com).
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General Announcements
- Thanks to Bob Hickey for sharing that SAS Management has approved an extension to the Office 365 Retention Policy deadline until May 10, 2022.
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.
Statistics
- John Sall: Adding volcano plot features to Response Screening and changing to a tabbed format (JMP-10825, Response Screening Feature page). The main volcano plot focuses on differences in the means. Another plot is available that tests if differences are greater than a specified difference-to-detect.
- Peng: Continued testing Repeated Measure Degradation and dug into research again on fitting these types of models.
- Jianfeng: Working on strings, bug fixes and answering questions from technical support. Collaborated with Mark to make sure all the statistical outputs from Passing-Bablok fit are right.
- Laura C-S: continued fixing bugs (including a crash) in the new SEM code. Started investigating a performance issue in SEM, and continued working on UI/UX prototypes.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Consolidated strings and finished up Scripting Index updates in advance of the first 17.0 string handoff next week; cleaned up tracked edits in stat doc in advance of the next EA help build; discussed upcoming Jira changes for doc bugs and feature requests with Trish.
- Karen: Working on the Oneway rewrite, DOE_ALT workflow updates, and minor updates to the Build a XXX Design sections across the DOE books to add links to sections that describe the design steps.
- Colleen: Working on scripting index edits to get as many strings as possible in the first string handoff.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Resolving unit test failures caused by axis change in Profiler that in turn changes desirability. Testing new Passing-Bablok regression in Bivariate. Attended demonstration of MINITAB UI/UX. Helping Brad and Joseph with design of Easy DOE. Testing Easy DOE with Jacob. Review current UI/UX for Bivariate and create a new Bivariate prototype. Answer questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Focused on adding unit tests for MSA Designs with nested factors and also for new tabs in Quantile Range Outliers. Editing a journal used for an MSA Design usability study, collaborating with Mark Bailey and Ryan Lekivetz. Investigating performance testing results.
- Tonya: Triaging JIRA tickets. Testing detection limits in distribution. Attending Neuraflash meetings. Reviewing OSI entries and ? tool. Bug verification.
Product Management
- Dan V: A nice JMP Live success story featuring customer Xilinx was recently posted on Inside JMP. It’s a great example of the JMP Live use case and the value it is bringing to this organization. Xilinx did a paid eval of JMP Live and decided to purchase a full commercial license.
- Bryan F: UX Workstream updates:
- Presentation Layer: Marilyn Wheatly did a Minitab demo.
- Developer Process: Conducted a usability test with Nicole Jones for the MSA design developed by Jacob Rhyne, Mark Bailey, Ryan Lekivetz and reviewed the usability study with the group.
- Functional UX: Aurora Tiffany-Davis, Mark Bailey, and Kevin Potcner made proposals for usability updates for Fit Y by X (Bivariate). I also studied the meaning of the existing values (e.g., F-ratio) and made a suggestion to show confidence curves instead of p-values.
- Consistency: Met with Susan Conaghan about a JMP term bank for a JMP Style Guide.
- Provided an updated wireframe and usability feedback on Workflow Builder.
- Provided some feedback on a question on JMP Community.
Technical Support
- Duane: The Service Cloud implementation is moving forward. Many of is in TS are focusing a lot of attention to the transition, but still handling our customer responsibilities. Here are the TS JMP Live reports. (JMP Live 16) Here is information regarding Jira tickets opened by Tech Support.
Development Operations
- Jim: Installed six ODBC drivers on each of the Windows daily testing machines (JMPTOOL-388). Redo the Python installation on vmwwin10081 (JMPTOOL-381). Verified fixed Jira LEAKS, ASAN and assertions failures and reported new ones.
- Shannon: Reviewed open crash issues and stories in JMP 17 track in Jira. Hosted various web meetings. Participated in interview for L10N tester position.
Documentation
- Susan C: Talked to Ernest and Evan about their ideas for single sourcing the JSR and the Scripting Index. Met with Bryan Fricke to discuss the consistency style guide/term bank project. Worked on an initial approach and meeting with other team members next week to discuss. Met with Curt and Ross to talk about updates to the Student Subscription documentation and sent the latest copy to Ross for review. Incorporated feedback on the Help menu tooltips and sent to Audrey's test team and Product Management for review. Worked with Qiana to plan EA7 help generation milestones for next week and plans to help Chris get on board.
- Qiana: Met with Trish to discuss testing JIRAs for localized help. Attended the JMP Clinical demo and the JIRA lunch and learn. Reviewed Susan’s proposed updates to the Help menu and provided input. Updated the status of JMP project JIRAs with Pubs Affected = unsure or blank. Began addressing JIRAs.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Nick H: Writing/editing tests and doing verifications mostly related to new display box messages/features and some character functions. Continuing work on the C++ unit test conversion that has taken a bit of a back seat the past couple of weeks due to things ramping up in Jira. Tracked down a bug from an EA track related to Add-In file sizes increasing unexpectedly. There also several CPPUT failures that have occurred over the past several weeks that I am hoping to work with developers to nail down.
- Mike M: Opened 3 Jiras this week from image diffs: 1) Adding random seed support for Transform Column(), 2) Empty outline HTML5 box after SEM update, 3) Hover label disappears after jitter adjustments. Starting to transfer Sikuli environment away from Azure again. Frustratingly, spent probably ½ day trying to update my Macs to transfer off of Mobile Iron.
- Hui: Noticed a confusing UI issue on removing column property from standardize attributes. Thanks to David White for confirmation and change the issue to a story. Investigated and reported a customer reported issue on text justification on HTML5. Investigated and reported other HTML5 justification issues.
- Lisa: Investigated EA tracks and entered in feature requests, cleaned up some hover label tickets, and tested center dodging with large colored markers.
- Audrey: Jira Lunch and Learn, participating in interviews for Xan and Trish, closing the loop on MATLAB testing.
- Hunter: Defect/JIRA item verification and some Search testing and verification.
- Josh L: JMP Live Regression testing. Cleaned up some Azure accounts in preparation of decommission. Working will folks that are using Azure vms to transition to AWS. JMP Live Bug and Story testing.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 02 Stories in Testing
- 42 Stories in Test Ready
- 00 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 11 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Verify PoC Bugs. (2) Updating JMP Live JSL unit tests and end-to-end tests due to PoC changes. (3) Preparing End-to-End slides.
- Da Li: (1) Test JMP Desktop bugs/stories, add corresponding UTs for OSIPI, Import and Export. (2) Test JMP Live bugs/stories about vlue-cli, migration, comments. (3) Fix JSL UT failures based on JMP-10894. (4) Completed Level 1 Software Security Practitioner Training.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP desktop bugs regression testing. (2) Worked with Jim to upgrade ODBC drivers on the nightly run machines JMPTOOL-388. (3) Investigated the MySQL known Server VS Driver incompatibility issue of JMP-7420, started to setup and configure the newest MySQL Server on one of our virtual machine: vmw-d10g603.na.sas.com. (4) JMPC Hotfix monthly testing.
- Kimi: (1) Prepare I18N testing for JMP Genetics platform "Marker Statistics". (2) Worked with Jim to upgrade Python on the nightly run machines, see JMPTOOL-381. (3) Test JMP Live bugs/stories about Data View. Testing data refresh from different sources, see WEBJMP-4562. (4) Completed Level 1 Software Security Practitioner Training. (5) Learn JMP Search and JMP Live new features. (6) Fix JSL UT failures. (7) Working on TS Support related SAS Integration, details refer to JMP-10942 and JMP-10954.
- Nala: (1) Investigated a JMP hang issue which was reported by Juliana Zhou in JMP China. See JMP-10941. (2) Reviewing Text Explorer functions in Scripting Index, which is required to complete within the week of Feb 28, see JMP-6967. (3) Brief test for Search using Chinese language, see JMPTESTBJ-1307. (4) Reviewed Help Tooltips. (5) Investigated the blank page issue when publishing and provided information to Aaron, see WEBJMP-4663. (6) Investigated TS report 7613526288. (7) Completed Level 1 Software Security Practitioner Training.
Data Discovery
- Evan: Fixed regression with Simulate random numbers due to change in Table Box Make Into Data Table. Fixed long-standing issue with Tutorials and Here scope. Investigating multithreading issues while working to multithread JMP Search.
- Dave B: Looked into an occasional crash in tk code when running the baselines and created a unit test to reproduce it, looking into ways to speed up image tests.
- Ernest: Bugfix for Compare tables for JMP clinical. Workflow builder: better editing/recording of steps.
- Xan: Working on marker jitter, area stacking and strings.
DOE
- Brad: Final preparations for the Stu Hunter conference next M-W. Working on a new family of mixed level screening designs with Ryan Lekivetz and Dibyen Majumdar (U of Ill. Chicago).
- Caleb: Pushed fixes for several MSA and Sample Size Explorer bugs. Preparing for next week’s Stu Hunter Conference.
- Joseph: Easy DOE string work plus work on layout, sizing, and spacing issues as well as fixing Easy DOE bugs.
Host
- Bryan B: Dropped SAS 9.3 support in JMP 17 (only 9.4 will be supported). Fixed JMP crash while connecting to expired SAS Local server (thanks Kimi Wang). Fixed JMP crash when SAS Integration (jmptojava) is not installed on Windows (Elizabeth Claassen, Kim Wang). Debugged TK threading issues with Dave Barbour and Darwin Driggers. Fix coming next week from SAS/TK. Continued work moving DBContext (Database connections) to use smart pointers.
- John Schroedl: Updated How to Profile C++ Code Confluence page due to recent Visual Studio changes. Address issue with Log when using Window > Close All. Perf analysis of View command handlers left around after DT closed. Email Retention clean up. Moved files off OneDrive.
HTML5
- John Powell: Triaged new Jira items and refined our backlog. Brought my Windows desktop back to office to start hybrid work, saw some familiar faces and met some new people face to face for the first time. Submitted JMP Live Local Data Filter (LDF) feature that creates a URL with LDF settings to share WEBJMP-348 . Started working on the same for Column Switchers. Checked in with Nick on Jira/Swarm integration (JMPTOOL-194). Attended Audrey’s Jira Lunch and Learn. Discussed our warning to publishers about creating content that might be slow to load WEBJMP-4734. Attended John’s plenary practice session.
- Praveena: Fixed bugs (1) Axis values unexpectedly shown alongside range reference label and (2) Axis Label error when Reference Label is set and there are two or more axis label rows. Started analyzing the bug Mosaic axes no longer match JMP.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Keep "refreshable" data (new feature) around, even if that data gets "orphaned". Thinking through how best to work with folders of arbitrary breadth and depth (moving stuff, deleting stuff, downloading stuff). Publish on client tweaks here and there. Started some access control tweaks (still in progress). Documented a naive walkthrough of the Fit Y by X platform for the UX workstream.
- Josh M: Worked on WEBJMP-3665: Create dialog to display column properties. Presented an early version at Tuesday’s design meeting and am adjusting to feedback and merging with other changes.
Note from Shannon
If you’ve been waiting for season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, the first episode is streaming now. Have a great weekend!
