Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 15, 2022!
Please note as shown in the screenshot above that this weekend is the third weekend maintenance cycle for SAS, so it’s possible we may have some outages in our large pool of physical machines, VMs, Jenkins, or other servers as a result of software updates and/or reboots of various systems. My team will be working through whatever remaining issues there are Monday morning to make sure that everything is back up and running as expected. Thanks in advance for your patience!
Hope you all had a chance to watch the quarterly update webcast. JMP had a great first quarter and I think we all should be proud of how we’ve supported customers to help make that happen – working on software releases, participating in Discovery Europe, helping with TS inquiries and customer crash reports, and responding to feedback from early adopters. Thanks for helping contribute to our success as a company!
We’ve got JMP 17 EA8 coming up in early May. We’ll cut EA9 in early July, and code freeze is planned for 7/20/22. Please continue to update your feature pages as needed to capture information on new and improved items to share with early adopters. Details and examples are very helpful as Hyde Miller works on training materials. Please finish up any remaining feature work as soon as possible and document late-breaking items on the Late Features page in Confluence. As always,
I’ll be glad to help moving items forward if you need batch updates in Jira. (I’ll be out next week, but will be glad to help the following week if needed.)
Thanks to product manager Bryan Fricke for presenting on the UX Workstream progress at yesterday’s JMP Dev meeting! If you missed the meeting, you can find a downloaded copy of the recording here. There were a lot of questions and comments during and after Bryan’s presentation – thanks to everyone who participated in the discussion! As John Sall noted in his comments, UX is an important initiative for JMP going forward, and we always need to keep our eyes open for opportunities. Thanks to Bryan for being willing to spearhead many of these efforts in collaboration with others in the UX workstream!
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing the details of Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the last 2 weeks with crashes selected. They’re in JMP Live here: Beta/Crash/Telemetry Tracks for the weeks of 4/8/22 and 4/15/22 | JMP Live (sas.com)
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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.
Data Discovery
- Sibusiso: Compiling, running, and understanding key components of JMP code and how to track and fix bugs using Jira. Went through a few JMP video tutorials and parts of the documentation to understand the user/customer side of the software.
- Dan S: Property work to remember changes for Number / NumEdit boxes. Fixed CRP setting width of dt column from JSL. Fix an issue specifying an initial window size for modal windows from JSL. Working on fixes for platform layout with Where clause or Data Table / Date Time titles from preferences.
DOE
- Caleb: Added more hover help and improved the wording in the MSA Designs platform based on feedback from usability studies conducted by the UI/UX working group. It was a huge help being able to see where user pain points were! Fixed a few more Sample Size Explorer bugs and continued my research with Peter.
- Joseph: Continued work on Easy DOE, including adding row state support to Factor Plots (i.e. Data Entry tab), redoing variable importance for Easy DOE Profiler (i.e. Predict tab), plus miscellaneous bug fixes and string work.
Host
- Michael H: Working to automate UBSAN test runs and reporting. I hope to streamline Jim Borek’s reporting process for all UBSAN, ASAN, and Assert runs, and maybe allow him to report some other issues that appear on the Console log but have gone unnoticed.
- John Schroedl: Updated SAS on Demand install tool for 17.0. Updating windows test runner script to report timeout vs crash differently. Copyright and Splash discussions and changes. Minor Help > Search JMP changes. Visual Studio support.
- Daniel Powell: Working with Bob Hickey and Audrey Shull to continue building our new JMP Update server, at this stage we are setting up the database connection required for usage reporting!
- Bryan B: Working with ActualTech ODBC support for ODBC issues on the Mac.
HTML5
- Paul S: Treemaps with ordering variables are now exported to Html5. Extremely Tiny Treemaps now render properly again in Html5. Html5 Treemap tooltips x-axis columns rendering process reworked. Html5 Treemap transparency now properly blends between two different Treemap Groups. Group label font support added in Html5. Html5 Tooltips now support date range statistics and durations. Treemap fill color is now exported to Html5.
JMP Live
- Michael G: Removed data options for replace, reviewed those changes in design meeting and went in a different direction. Implemented the ability to update, keep, or create new data posts for a replace operation instead. Added publish and replace operations for standalone data.
- Aurora: For the publish-on-client feature, added support for some upcoming client tweaks, protected against some possible mistakes & malicious behaviors, and refined and added some tests. Updated the "deleted post" notifications for scenarios that are now possible in 17.0.
Statistics
- Peng: Cleaned up several remaining items regarding reproducibility: Individual Causes graphics not reproduced by script (JMP-9589), Survival Competing Causes script prompts on redo (JMP-8023), and Time Series Model Comparison selection not reproduced by script (JMP-9590). Closed some Jira tickets related to Time Series Forecasting: TSF Recommended Specifications change behavior (JMP-12004), Add more links between Group Summary tables and Select Series list (JMP-10052), and Need to provide Constrained Parameters option in Graph Builder ETS fit (JMP-344).
- Laura C-S: Fixed a few SEM bugs, met with Chris to discuss where to add two-stage least squares for starting values in the new numerics, investigating a bug with the expected information matrix used for modification indices and another one with the Hessian for total effects when there are equality constraints in models.
Stat Documentation
- Colleen: Worked on some string edits and a lot of work for the updates/reorganization of Response Screening, including updating all of the examples, screen shots, and screen shot scripts.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Answered a question from an SE about Process Screening features introduced in 16.1. Answered a user community question about capability analysis based on standard deviations. Attended Salesforce training. Working on gathering and cleansing data from EA releases prior to 16 so comparisons can be made. Bug verification.
- Mark: Assisted Brad and Joseph with design of Easy DOE. Assisted Jianfeng with Passing-Bablok regression in Bivariate and Bland-Altman analysis in Matched Pairs. Answered questions in JMP community.
- Jacob: Performance Testing, looking into recent potential issues and converted a Word document I’ve been using to track performance issues to a JMP Journal. Investigating DOE unit test failures. Responding to beta feedback and cleaning unit tests.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Provided UX Workstream update at Developer meeting. Met with Paul Spychala afterwards who shared some of his initial impressions when learning JMP. Reviewed some changes to tooltip creation for HTML5 treemaps. Continued developing graphics for company theme presentation. Worked with Sam Gardner on Design Space Profiler usability script. Developed graphic for splash screen and met with Aaron Kennedy about JMP Branding and software styles. Worked with Michael Goff on some JMP Live Publish on Client interface details related to replacing reports. Participated in Coffee with Product Management. Met with Landra and Shannon about how to reference JMP Statistical Discovery LLC in product. Participated in product management planning for JMP 18.
- UX Workstream:
- Completed processing of freeform text from Taylor Ferguson’s survey on an affinity map.
- Functional Team: Provided an example of how to specify individual solution ideas.
- Developer Team: Created form for voting, conducted voting, and tallied votes for individual solution ideas to MSA Design pain points.
Technical Support
Development Operations
- Jim: Perforce support. Made modifications to the JMP Clinical installer on mac OS to allow for both JMP and Clinical applications to co-exist on the machine. Reported numerous ASAN, crash and assertion failure Jiras. I appreciate the assistance of both Michael Hecht, for his continued work on helping me set up a routine UBSAN run, and John Schroedl, for his adaptation of the Windows UT process to differentiate crashes from timeouts. Both of these efforts will yield benefits for testers and developers!
- Myron: Working on manual sample data processing, unit test email problems for Beijing testers, incomplete/empty crash results (JMPTOOL-423), Salesforce crash API and 2022 goals.
Localization
- Angelita: Several memoQ training sessions with Sandy; coordinated with Bryan Fricke & Landra on memoQ setup for JMP Live string reviews; Simplified Chinese Portable UI sent to review; more updates to confluence process documentation.
- Howard: Investigating with Falco and John Jones if localization team can use their SendGrid account for Query System emails (thanks Falco & John for your willingness to share resources); development work on Jenkins jobs; updated Korean JMP add-in to include Multivariate Methods.pdf.
- Melanie: Met with Qiana & Chris to discuss production processes for Doc handoffs to L10n & upcoming DJ handoff; validated test kit for Quick Reference Card; tested several Jenkins jobs that Howard worked on.
- Sandy: More memoQ training; tested PDF copy Jenkins job; goals in Workday; vacation Thurs/Friday
- Trish: Updated Jiras and V17.0 release schedule with revised localization dates and communicated to translation teams; triage translation queries; met with Professional Development Worksteam – summarized ideas to Phil; invoices submitted for payment.
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Qiana: Attended the Manager Journey - Virtual Coaching Session 1. For the macOS and Windows Menu cards I made updates, distributed for review, incorporated review comments, and sent to Test. Documented my Goals in Workday. Reviewed my team’s Goals in Workday. Communicated with Legal about the JMP copyright statement. Mapped out EA8 dates and shared with writers. Began making updates to the Quick Reference Card.
- Susan C: Working on updates to existing tips of the day. Created the new Search feature tip of the day, got it reviewed & implemented feedback. Added the content to the About text inset that is in all our books. Working on the new Workflow Builder feature to get it in the DJ, then I’ll create a tip for it. Attended Bryan’s UX presentation. Updated these text insets for the DJ: Projects, Web Reports, and Dashboards.
- Chris B: Finished two post-processing scripts for the help. Started dissecting two framescripts to hopefully understand them by Wednesday (you know, a whole day before we need to use them).
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on WFB – wrote another test using script Ernest gave me, with using message window; wrote a transform column test and added to framework. Testing the UI for WFB as closely as I can – working on some data to demo and/or use if Abstract is accepted for Discovery. WFB/Project testing – working on fixes there; Tabulate – issue with GB and Tabulate scrolling on Mac, problem with display; Developer changed issue with join and table names on Mac – fixed those tests.
- Nick H: Working on a number of Jira verifications a few of which revolved around incorrect saving of platform scripts – added additional tests to the framework. Creating a Confluence page to go along with tutorial video for new Display Path hint system. Working on a failsafe when UT suite is run and is not connected to the internet to still allow for known Jira issues to be marked or excluded. Official CL has been created for CPPUT test migration looking to have it reviewed and submitted next week. Continuing to resolve new and existing unit test failures.
- Lisa: Reviewing some older graph builder defects and created image tests for issues that now appear resolved, verified 17.0 tickets, and investigated crash with a publishing script.
- Hunter: Reviewed the Menu Cards for Mac and Windows, worked on reproducing several CRPs, JIRA verifications, and met with Aaron about some projects defects.
- Audrey: Check-in meetings with Beijing staff, finalizing goals in Workday, tweaks to the test framework to support JMPTEST-478, updates for testing VMs.
- Josh L: JMP Live story/bug verification. Testing focus on Publish Replace, Notification Changes, deletions.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 06 Stories in Testing
- 41 Stories in Test Ready
- 25 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 23 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- JMP 17 I18N testing is in progress. The testing for the JMP 17 stories that were fixed before March 2022 has been done. Next, we will work on the stories that are fixed between Mar 01 - Apr 01. Details please find in JMPTESTBJ-1015.
- Reviewed Menu Card pdf
- Eric Wang: (1) Working on Jira items related to JMP Live stored credentials. Added integration tests for CURD credentials. Testing credential assignment features. (2) Bug verification. (3) JMP 17 I18N testing. (4) Review Menu Card pdf.
- Da Li: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Review Menu Card pdf. (3) Setup weekday JMP Live migration automation running on local Jenkins server. (4) Work with Kimi to try setting up migration automation env on AWS. (5) Add tests for JMP Live migration. (6) Added tests for JSL Unit tests.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Review Menu Card pdf. (3) 3. JMP 17.0 OLE automation testing on new Windows 11 OS and with Office 365 version.
- Kimi: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Completed I18N testing for Genetics Platforms, see JMPTESTBJ-1296. (3) Tested JMP Live Jira items for Data view-client and Data-client. (4) Working on supporting JMP Live Migration Tests in Jenkins.
- Nala: (1) JMP 17 I18N testing. (2) Test Text Explorer related Jira items. (3) Tested JMP Live Jira items for Publish.
Note from Shannon
If it seems like this spring pollen season is worse than ever, you’re not imagining it. Pollen seasons are starting weeks earlier and it appears that climate change is playing a role in this change. Here’s a recent story from WRAL that mentions that the Southeast and Pacific Northwest have been hit particularly hard. NPR posted this article yesterday focused on this topic. And if you’d rather get your news straight from the journal, here’s a PNAS article.
If you or your family members suffer from seasonal allergies, I hope you’ve found strategies that work for you to alleviate the symptoms! Have a great weekend!
