Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 13, 2022!
We have signed off on JMP 17 EA8 and installers are now available for early adopters to download. Thanks to everyone who worked to get this latest EA ready to share. We have one final EA release planned for early July. I know many of you have been busy with bug triage work this week. If you fix anything that you think EA customers should know about for EA9, please add details to the Motivation and Summarysection of the corresponding feature page or let Mia know.
One final reminder - next week we will freeze changes to JMP 17 Sample Data. This is one of the many deliverables that ship with JMP 17 that the doc, L10 and tooling teams have been coordinating on as we near the end of the JMP 17 cycle. Thanks for your help responding to translator queries for deliverables already in translation. Quick responses to translator requests keep new content flowing through the process.
Congratulations go out this week to Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Caleb King, and Brad Jones on another patent award for the DOE group. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued their patent, “Data Set Generation for Performance Evaluation” on May 10th, 2022 as U.S. Patent No. 11,328,106. A copy of the patent has been uploaded to the Issued Patents Sharepoint site.
Thanks to Mandy Chambers for sharing that the professional growth workstream team has put together a survey on career development that they would like everyone to take 5-6 minutes to read and answer. They will be using this feedback to better understand what folks need. A few months ago, the team posted an article called talk to us about professional development and appreciated the feedback and comments that they received as well.
Important Upcoming Dates
- Sample Data Freeze – 5/18/22
- Third Weekend Maintenance – 5/20/22 – 5/22/22
- 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
- Laura L: Added an option to the prediction profiler within several modeling platforms (Fit Least Squares, Nominal Logistic, Ordinal Logistic, Neural, Partition, Boosted Trees, Bootstrap Forest, and Generalized Regression) as well at the Graph menu profiler platform to compute Shapley Values. Added some Variability platform preferences for showing hidden columns in the Gauge R&R report. Added a general JMP preference for enabling BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms), which was added to improve performance for some linear algebra routines in JMP 17. BLAS is enabled by default unless the user changes the platform preference. While the BLAS routines are much faster, there can be variation in the results from machine to machine. Also added a plot column differences plot to the All Pairwise Difference table in Multiple Comparisons.
- Laura C-S: Gave a JMP-SEM demo to five quantitative psychology professors who provided useful feedback for the platform. Added new data and scripts to the Academic Achievement.jmp sample data table and rounded all values to 2-decimal places. Investigated and fixed a couple of crashes that I found while preparing last week’s presentation. Preparing for our summer intern’s arrival.
- Elizabeth: Worked on providing warnings/guidance for overparameterized models in normal mixtures clustering with Clay’s assistance. Fixed a display bug with the scatterplot matrix within KMeans and Normal Mixtures clustering spotted by Luciano. Working on extrapolation control for mixed models.
- John Sall: Fixing things (JMP-12372 JMP-12348 JMP-12318 JMP-3334 JMP-10960 JMP-7478 JMP-12233 JMP-7798 JMP-7798 JMP-7798 JMP-5659 JMP-5676 JMP-5658 JMP-5656 JMP-5354 JMP-10227 JMP-7604 JMP-12412 JMP-7465 JMP-5348 JMP-7804 JMP-5360).
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Finished up edits to the Sample Size Explorer chapter for the UI changes and additional calculators/exploders added to the platform.
Stat Testing
- Mark B: Design Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Test Easy DOE with Jacob. Review draft of 4 new chapters for platforms from Fit Y by X. Writing paper about Equivalence Tests and Method Comparison for JMP Discovery Summit with Jianfeng. Answer questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing Easy DOE, working on a new test for saving and loading .jmpdoe files. Investigating unit test failures due to an issue with OpenBlas (JMP-12409), and working on verifying the fix for this. Testing the performance of Kasia’s shelved change for Gaussian Process.
- Tonya: Gave a presentation about EA feedback and Service Cloud to the QA group. Learning Service Cloud. Gathering and cleansing old EA data.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Most of this week was spent in product management planning for JMP 18. Collaboration with Michael Hecht regarding making the background color and outline fill on Mac consistent with Windows (Change 599447 & 600114). I coordinated with Andrew Vitkus on some icon requests and string changes. Continued conversations with Ernest on WFB changes and need for a few more icons. Collaborated with Michael Hecht and John Powell on some font changes that aren’t being exported to HTML5 (JMP-12447).
Technical Support
- Duane: We continue to learn the new system and are working with the Salesforce team (Candice, et al) to help with our case management processes. Dahlia, Wendy, Stan, and I met with our Kyoko-san and the Japan TS team earlier this week to help with their questions. They plan to transition to Service Cloud later this month (or at the latest, the first week after Memorial day).
Development Operations
- Jim: Replacing the Windows Japanese OS VM testing machine, INC0631656. Reported assertion failures and leaks. Tweaked Windows build scripts (Thanks John Schroedl) to remove individual openBLAS dll files, JMP-12409. Tweaked Macintosh LEAKS scripts (Thanks Michael Hecht) to utilize new summary routines.
- Bob: Met with Marketing to begin introduction to SalesForce mechanics and steps to provide downloadable files. Continued work to get orders for JMP Clinical properly processed. Created and pushed EA 8 and Clinical EA 8. Worked with John Schroedl on tweaking openBLAS DLLs in Windows installers.
- Melanie: Testing sample data process with Myron.
- Myron: Updating sample data .xlf and .jsl scripts. Integrating the crash system with Salesforce.
Localization
- Angelita: MDC/QRC, DJ and SharedTextInset kits delivered to ZH, FR, DE, IT; , DJ and SharedTextInset kits delivered to KO; JMP Live kit processing; finalized ZH & IT portable UI return.
- Howard: Image comparisons for Tip of the Day and DJ; JMP Live kit processing.
- Melanie: Validations for IT and ZH portable UI returns; validations for JMP Live returns; led two meetings: discuss challenges with SharedTextInsets & how to manage styles.css for L10N. Both meetings tested out a new project kickoff process being developed.
- Sandy: Validations for IT and ZH portable UI returns; validations for JMP Live returns.
- Trish: Translation queries; updated Jiras for BRD with project info for DJ and TOTD; professional development workstream; Jira project cleanup.
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Susan C: Finished updating the tips of the day and handed off to Trish. Getting up-to-speed with JMP Live. Working on how to list the text insets for localization. Updating our FrameMaker template per meeting with Michael C.
- Chris B: Tried to figure out how to stop scaling images in help (unsuccessful so far). Wrote a script to identify images that had bad ALT text. Wrote some bookmarklets for the group. Security training and buddy training. Prepped for the intern. Continued learning FrameMaker.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Triaged issues in several WFB tracks. Ernest reworked Hide Tables and Dirty Workflows which uncovered a few new crashes. My Discovery paper was accepted and I will demo Workflow builder in mid-June. Focusing on introducing the basics and building a few good examples of workflows, showing different ways to use it (i.e. archiving things you did, cleaning up tables brought in from different forms, and maybe adding to a workflow you have and building on that). Icons and buttons have been changed due to Bryan Fricke recommendations. Features are coming together! In the midst of that, trying to stay on top of other things – Action recording, Recode, tabulate, and all other things with Data tables!
- Nick H: Pushed an initial CL for the conversion of certain C++ unit tests to baseline tests in the JSL Unit Test stream. Also added some unit tests for JMP Search which are now running cleanly. Evan and I will surely be making changes and additions to these as JMP Search evolves. Working on some new functionality for the JSL Unit Test Runner that would allow users to create a custom of list of tests that would be preloaded when the GUI is opened or could be used as a custom filter. Keeping up with Jira verifications and responses to EA tracks.
- Hunter: Completed JMP 17 EA 8 validation testing, opened JMP-12387 for crash encountered with reliability report opened from session script or project and open JMP-12434 where JMP Search Window on Mac does not return some sample data files, worked with Dave M. on issue with JMP Profiler GUI in Excel, and defect verification.
- Mike M: Completed Sikuli environment transition to AWS from Azure. Added a few Sikuli tests. Trying to coordinate a discussion of noinfo.html usage for JMP Help. The usual chaos of image tests.
- Lisa: Worked on EA testing, verifications for regression fixes reported in EA tracks, and added feature request tickets for caption box axis reference line suggestions.
- Josh L: JMP Live Story Testing. JMP Live Keycloak installation testing and regression. Working on updating JSL for load testing.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 03 Stories in Testing
- 55 Stories in Test Ready
- 49 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 43 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Completed JMP 17 EA8 testing, see details in JMPTESTBJ-1587.
- Completed JMP Live 17 I18N testing, details in JMPTESTBJ-212.
- Eric Wang: (1) Tested JMP Live schedule. It is hard to add automation tests because we have to wait for schedule is fired. So did manual testing. (2) Investigating how to call API ‘GET /jmp/{sessionTicket}/tables/{id}/columns’ from JSL script. Encountering an issue that JMPPool got incorrect request URL. Not sure if it is a bug, confirming with developer.
- Da Li: (1) Investigated PDF import with MFI issues which are mentioned by Craige Hales and provide feedback to Audrey, 3 new bugs/stories created. (2) JMP Desktop 17 EA8 testing on Win11 and Mac Monterey. (3) DONE:JMP Live 17 I18N testing. (4) Testing JMP Live new change about Post-Download-Client/Server and adding Jest tests. (5) Verify stories/bugs. (6) Add comment for steps to test I18N for publish(Because of new publish method PoC) I18N testing for JMP Live - China R&D JMP Testing Team - SAS R&D Confluence
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17.0 new feature testing of the AWS activation JMP update page against test server and prod server, see details in JMPTESTBJ-1530 (2) JMP 17.0 EA 8 testing (3) JMP 17.0 Live I18N testing. (4) Verify stories/bugs.
- Kimi: (1) JMP 17.0 EA 8 testing. (2) Fix UT Failures related to Formula Depot (3) JMP Live I18N testing. (4) JMP 17 will no longer supports SAS 9.3. Verify the change JMP-10929 Remove SAS 9.3 support from JMP 17.0. (5) Verify stories/bugs. (6) SAS-LMS trainings have been done.
- Nala: (1) JMP 17.0 EA 8 testing. (2) JMP Live I18N testing. (3) Testing JMP Live Publish related Jira items. (4) Prepare scenario-based testing for JMP Live 17, details can be found in https://rndconfluence.sas.com/confluence/display/CRDJMP/Scenario-based+Testing+for+JMP+Live+17. (5) SAS-LMS trainings have been done. (6) Attended Situational Leadership Workshops.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed crashes copying and sorting StringColDisplay and IconStringColDisplay, fixed an OpenGL debug mode crash, fixed a problem with focus in the customize graph dialog, fixed plotcol output for html and rtf, updated jmprunner to include new dll and to try to prevent problems with long paths.
- Ernest: Workflow builder fixes for subsetting and hiding tables. Workflow builder handling of includes when generating script or journal. Pushed change to ctrl+/ to comment current line if no selection.
- Xan: Updated LineSeg and PolySeg to not draw hidden points, when the points are assigned to row states. Details are in Confluence here: Hidden and Missing Points in Lines and Areas.
- Sibusiso: Working on issues involving GB Mosaic hover labels, and on how to enable Hierbox placement options through a jsl script. I also started the STIPS course.
DOE
- Brad: Reviewed two research papers - one for Technometrics and another for Quality & Reliability International
- Peng: Continue to refine my work on SendToEmbeddedScriptable, the general solution of recording and restoring embedded scriptable objects and platforms. Find a non-intrusive way to subclass Profiler and bind with predictor for customized behavior, with immediate applications in Profilers for Bayesian results and SendToEmbeddedScriptable work. Untangles source code dependencies on “reliaUtilGUI.h” and “fitRegularized.h”. Before the change, a touch on “reliaUtilGUI.h” and “fitRegularized.h” will trigger a recompilation of 150+ and 100+ Cpp files respectively. After the decoupling, the numbers are down to 40~ and 10~. That should be a significant improvement for productivity to me and Clay. Fixed bugs JMP-12386: Hidden and Excluded rows are included in the analysis, JMP-12391: Inconsistency when reporting estimates in Cause Summary vs in Posterior Estimates, and JMP-9942: S1506201: Life distribution preference for interval type does not apply as expected.
- Joseph: Continued work on Easy DOE, mostly miscellaneous bug fixing work. Many, many thanks to Jim Borek (trying to help me late into the night) and Chris Humphrey for helping me to resolve Perforce/P4Merge issues. If you are on macOS Monterey you may need to upgrade to the latest P4Merge otherwise you may not be able to “diff” or “resolve” files.
- Ryan L: Continued work on 17.0 tickets, looking at possible topics for ISSRE 2022.
Host
- John Schroedl: Worked with Jacob and debugged BLAS-related numeric issue on some CPUs resulting in an update to OpenBLAS version 0.3.20. Thanks to Bob, Jim and Dave B. for quick updates due to DLL changes. Consulted on BLAS preference change. Helped Aaron with a WPF command routing issue which affected copy/paste in the browser control. Looked into TOTD focus rect issue.
- Michael H: Removed the remaining 1,000 or so references to OwnerOfArrayOf, replacing them with std::vector. UBSAN automated testing is now up and running. Consulted with Jim Borek to streamline all debug test runs (ASAN, LEAKS, UBSAN, D) to exclude stress tests and reduce timeout to 30 minutes, in order to reduce the turnaround time for each run.
- Daniel Powell: Audrey, Nan and I are finishing up testing for the production check for updates server. This is the last step before working with SAS IT on an external release!
HTML5
- John Powell: Participated in a Managers Virtual Coaching Session. Attended several of Josh’s knowledge transfer sessions. Reassigned Josh’s components and Jira items to HTML5 team members. Triaged and refined JMPHTML backlog. Investigated performance metrics strings remaining in English when switching JMP Live display language (WEBJMP-5152). Discussed font size customization with Michael H. and Bryan F. Fixed a problem reporting the sum of categories in marker tooltips JMPHTML-1121
- Paul S: Working with Josh and our team to get as much knowledge from him as possible. This is ending with me researching the way our Javascript calculations differs from the JMP code when it comes to Missing, (-)Infinity, and NaN and how that impacts our calculations when we are doing profilers.
- Mayowa: Fixed bug with grouped parallel plot axis labels in html(JMPHTML-1289), fixed bug with fixed tooltip tag lines in html (JMPHTML-1467), attended knowledge sharing sessions by Josh Markwordt, familiarizing myself with the code for GStream and Mosaic segment
- Praveena: Continued with knowledge transfer sessions with Josh Markwordt and the team. Started looking into S1582600: Remove port of calculating area points in favor of using precalculated points for drawing areas.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Finished up enforcement of unique package titles within a space / folder. This week it was resolving non-unique titles when moving packages around and resolving pre-existing non-unique package titles via database migration. Cautiously optimistic that I'm now in bug-fixing mode for 17.0. Fixed a handful of small bugs touching various features.
- Aaron: Updated Download as Project on JMP Live to work nicely with hierarchical folders. (This is doubly awesome when used via the new Open in JMP button that Chris Humphrey built). Triaging remaining 17.0 bugs.
- Michael G: Front-end work for “Open in JMP” from a report, data, or folder view in JMP Live. Support reassigning data for a report. Lots of small feature requests across spaces, publishing, etc. Bug fixes.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Elizabeth Claassen for sharing another statistics-related XKCD from earlier this week! Hope you all have a great weekend!
https://xkcd.com/2618/
