Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 8, 2022!
We are about a month from our freeze date for JMP 17 EA8 on 5/6/22. We will have one final EA freeze on 7/6/22 for JMP 17 EA9 and will reach JMP 17 Code Freeze on 7/20/22. Thanks to all of you who have been updating your feature pages in Confluence and checking the boxes for feature readiness details this week. These pages are more important than ever as technical enablement and product management prepare training and informational materials in advance of the JMP 17 launch.
This week, Sara Doudt from the product management team published this article for Inside JMP on the JMP Taxonony Initiative. This project aims to create a common classification scheme that can be applied to many categories of items, from customer-facing materials to internal training deliverables to product management and development initiatives. Sara asks that you please take a minute to read through this article and feel free to add a comment to share how you could use this information in your role.
Thanks very much to Mac host developer Michael Hecht for presenting on special UBSAN builds for finding undefined behaviors at this week’s dev meeting. As he promised during the demo, Michael pushed an initial set of changes to resolve some of the issues he has uncovered so far with these special builds (591593: Undefined Behavior: safe fixes) and also changed undefined behaviors to assertion failures (591581). As his email noted this morning, “You can either review the change list in P4V, or sync and then search for these strings: UBAssert, UBNumericCast, UBSAN.” If you missed the meeting, you can find a downloaded copy of the recording here.
Finally, this week we continue to grow our JMP family! We say a warm welcome to developer Sibusiso Mabuza who started this week as a member of Xan’s Data Discovery group. And we also send congratulations to Evan McCorkle and his family on the arrival of their new baby daughter Daphne Wren McCorkle last Sunday. Evan shares that everyone is doing well and he will be out on the first half of parental leave until May. Welcome, Daphne!
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 EA7 – 3/11/22
- Third Weekend Maintenance – 4/15/22 - 4/17/22
- 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.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Reported a recode issue and added a test for it. Reported a crash with New Formula > Group by that is now fixed. Tested action recorder fixes and added tests in JSL framework. Workflow builder – fixes, zip files are now saved into Project, but hoping this can be fixed so you can move the WFB out of the project if you send it to someone (JMP-11930). Wrote an Abstract for Discovery to do a paper or poster on Workflow Builder. Found a Tabulate crash with All that Dan S. is looking into. Wrote and added Goals to Performance section in Workday.
- Nick H: Bug verifications and cleaning up some newly introduced as well as some older unit test failures. Fixed an issue with the JSL Unit Test GUI related to importing text files as filters. Worked with Audrey to create a plan to eventually integrate timeouts into the Testing Dashboard as they get separated from crashes. Continuing work on some on ongoing projects that I hope to wrap up soon.
- Hunter: Responded to EA tracks, JIRA verification, opened three JIRA items for display issues opening HTML reports from the project window, and submitted feedback from JMP Search window results with JMP running in different languages.
- Mike M: Busy week with several large image diff changes. Via image diffs I: entered HTML Y-axis bug, entered Testing Dashboard images unusable on a Mac bug, fed back that Unit test fail w/ Scripting Index updates. Worked with Dan S and John Shroedl on developing my Sikuli image diff environment. Started working to port Sikuli back over to AWS (thanks, Josh for all your help on this!).
- Lisa G: Worked on verifications for configure levels and annotation/label fill bugs, entered a crash when using graphlets with treemap & applying an LDF, and entered a bug where the subset command via hover labels does not filter correctly when paired with configure levels.
- Josh L: JMP Live Jira Story and Bug verification. Focused on JMP Live JSL and control chart testing this week. Provided Hui with assistance to get the android tablet reinstalled with her id so she can enroll the device in Intune.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 06 Stories in Testing
- 39 Stories in Test Ready
- 04 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 14 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team: JMP 17 I18N testing is in progress. 132/169 has been done. Details please find in JMPTESTBJ-1015.
- Eric Wang: (1) Tested Jira items related to web view sessions, added more integration tests. (2) Working on Jira items related to JMP Live stored credentials. (3) Bug verification.
- Da Li: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Continue updating JMP Live migration automation cases. (3) Review items in JMP Data Connectors Research. (4) Organize JMP Desktop I18N testing. Define and assign I18N testing tasks to corresponding person and track whole status more preciously.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Discussed and sent feedback of the JMP Beijing team tested data types/data sources to Maanasa on the JMP Data Connectors Research. (3) Investigated TS report Technical 7613550202.
- Kimi: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Completed I18N testing for Genetics Platforms, see JMPTESTBJ-1296. (3) Tested JMP Live Jira items.
- Nala: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Test Text Explorer related Jira items.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Tracked down a truncation issue with scatter3d, fixed a bug where c++ callbacks for NumberColEditDisplay and StringColEditDisplay were not getting called when values were set via jsl and then worked with Ernest to fix some problems the fix created, fixed persistence of annotation fill settings.
- Sibusiso: This week was my first week. I have been busy with onboarding work and getting my machine ready for JMP development.
- Xan: More axisInSequence work; researching Tabulate and Pareto issues; welcoming Sibusiso!
- Ernest: Workflow Builder discussions about how to export. Jira fixes and deferrals.
DOE
- Congratulations to Brad Jones on winning “Best Invited Paper” for his Discovery Summit Europe presentation “A Surprising Use of the Fit Definitive Screening Platform”!
- Caleb: Worked with Joseph to fix several bugs regarding simulating responses in MSA. I also continued work on joint research with Peter Parker from NASA.
- Joseph: Worked on reworking MSA simulation to properly support nested and crossed effects. Also, continued work on Easy DOE Profiler (i.e. Predict tab).
Host
- John Schroedl: Performance finding - I learned that std::shared_mutex is much faster than std::mutex on Windows b/c MSFT is not willing to change the std::mutex API for backward compatibility. Based on this recommendation, Evan noted a 20% speedup in the Search on Windows by changing to shared_mutex. Added Open dialog support for Workflow files. Fixed splash screen text under Japanese and pushed screens with © 2022. Pushed GPicture changes to load icons shown by Explorer/Finder for files. Fix issue with ‘Files in Directory’ and symbolic links on Mac.
- Paul N: Resolved Scatterplot3D precision issue with connect points and drop lines (JMP-11921). Made IDAT import a JMP Pro only feature (JMP-11626)
- OpenStreetMap server work:
- Success at getting JMP 16 ( with modified URL ) to load maps from Virtual Machine running new OpenStreetMap software stack.
- maps.jmp.com, a new top-level JMP domain for our map server needs. This now gives us a consistent .jmp.com URL for our mapping service needs. When the production map server replacement is complete, it will reside here. Once live, the current legacy server’s URL (jmpopnst.sas.com) will be redirected to maps.jmp.com. At present the reverse redirect is in place. For now, maps.jmp.com redirects to jmpopnst.sas.com so JMP 17.0 can be pointed to the new .jmp.com URL.
- New map server returns vibrant images, I am comparing configurations to figure out how to make the maps more muted like the current server.
- Michael H: UBSAN work.
HTML5
JMP Live
- Aurora: Finished gathering requirements for Publishing Data (by itself). 90% done on the server-side code for that feature as well. Finished abstracts for Discovery Americas 2022.
- Michael G: Isolated Publish on Client into its own “app” to make it leaner. Filter data posts to selected space for publish on client. Created isolated error and not found pages for publish on client. Removed data options for replace. Various bug fixes.
- Josh M: Worked on various JMP Live issues including
- WEBJMP-4940: Add translated strings for supported format names
- WEBJMP-4949: Make data table column sidebar use infinite scrolling wrapping paging
- WEBJMP-4961: There is a big blank block under Columns in Data View page
- WEBJMP-4909: Filtering on modeling type isn't responding properly
- WEBJMP-4194: Handle auth token expiration better in data table viewer (triaged this one and found it has been resolved)
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Focusing on fixing bugs and polishing new features. Added Bland-Altman Analysis in matched pairs platform to complete the features of Passing-Bablok regression.
- Peng: Working with Bill Meeker on issues that he found or suggested: putting two-sided interval columns under a merged column title (JMP-11655), Hazard function profile shows sign of instability (JMP-11816), and submitted a joint abstract on the new platform to the Discovery conference. Continued polishing repeated measures degradation and addressed other miscellaneous issues recently surfaced.
- John Sall: The Design Space Profiler now supports Locked X factors when specified in the Profiler it is called from. It is important when you are considering X limits on only a subset of the factors. (JMP-11676) The Profiler has a new command “Hide Y Variables” to allow a subset of the responses to be visible. (JMP-5590)
- Laura C-S: Updated the SEM Feature page by adding applied examples to each new feature. Continued searching for data to demo multiple-group analysis (MGA). Started doing analyses and preparing JMP Dev presentation for MGA.
- Elizabeth: Updating GLMM feature Confluence page with examples now that sample data has been added. Working on a degrees of freedom issue with inverse prediction in Mixed. Fixed a couple small bugs in GLMM.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continued working with Legal to get sample data tables approved for 17. Interviewed candidates for a summer intern position with the stat doc team. Working with Karen on rewrites for the Fit Y by X chapters in the documentation.
- Colleen: Documenting Dissolution Curve Analysis in the Fit Curve chapter. I also added an example for dissolution curves.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Space Filling Design, adding more tests for the diagnostics and adding tests that include discrete numeric and mixture factors. Investigating a crash using covariates in Custom Design. Testing OC Curves, focusing on the AQL and RQL in the Single and Double Sampling Acceptance Test curves. Participating in the UI/UX workstream.
- Fang: Responding to EA feedback and questions from TS. Testing fixes for GLMM, Decision Threshold, and GenReg.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Requested legal approval to use Google Material Design icons in JMP and HTML5. Developing Workflow Builder icons. Updated JMP 17 Splash Screens for consistency and updated copyright information. Presented at UX Workstream update at the JMP All Management meeting. Developing graphics for company theme presentation. Provided input on Publish on Client options, JMP Search, JMP Clinical Logo, and Workflow Builder help text. Replied to a JMP Community post about interactive legends in HTML5.
- Presentation Layer Meeting: Updated a design idea to allow for tabbed views within JMP.
- Developer Process Meeting: Tallied votes from user experience map that was generated from user testing pain points. Developed goals and metrics associated with prioritized pain points. Contributed a design idea for how to present MSA Design structure.
Technical Support
- Duane: Continue working with NeuraFlash on our Service Cloud implementation. Progress is being made, but there are a few outstanding issues being evaluated/solved. TS has seen an uptick in tracks concerning the renewals of JMP Student Subscription recently as well. Here are the TS JMP Live reports. (JMP Live 16) Here is information regarding Jira tickets opened by Tech Support.
Development Operations
- Myron: Helped troubleshoot memoQ issues with Sandy - we finally got that figured out today. Worked on the alternate method of sample data processing so hopefully that’ll be ironed out and usable next week. Following up on details needed to transition the crash system dev environment away from Sirius.
- Shannon: Worked on goals with team members. Reviewed unsolved crashes and open crash investigations and assisted testers and tech support with various crash investigations. Reviewing open story items.
- Nick R: Resolved doc library project issues. Testing Mac CI builds in AWS environment.
Localization
- Team: Working on goals; triage of overdue Jiras
- Angelita: JMP Live kits sent to translation; assisted Sandy with memoQ install issues; working on plan to include keys for JMP Live UI string reviews
- Howard: Working to Migrate l10n image diffs to new server; reorganized structure of JMP Live jobs in Jenkins
- Melanie: Overview of Jenkins to Sandy; provided input on project to Migrate l10n image diffs to new server
- Sandy: Met with Jim for overview of P4 (thank you Jim!); Met with Melanie for overview of Jenkins; starting work on JMPTOOL-295; time spent to resolve issues with memoQ installation.
- Trish: Responding to translation queries; met with team to discuss goals and bonus information; triage of JMP i18n bugs
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Qiana: Attended Sample Index Window training provided by Melanie. Added Sample Data Tables to P4V. Made updates to Windows and macOS Menu Cards. Attended Manager Circle. Interviewed an intern candidate.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Bob Hickey for sharing this picture he “snapped” of a turtle returning to work at building A yesterday! Hope you all have a great weekend!
