Welcome to the JMP Development update for May 27, 2022!
Thanks for the continued bug triage and fixes! Once we return from the holiday weekend, it will be ~5 weeks until we freeze for JMP 17 EA9.
As you are wrapping up work on your features pages in Confluence and sharing important changes for EA9, please remember to check the boxes for HTML5 and JMP Live testing on the feature readiness checklist, if you have done this step. If you have not yet tested whether your feature exports correctly into local interactive HTML or flows correctly into JMP Live, please try it out. You can contact Audrey Shull, Hui Di or Anna Kushner for guidance if you’re not sur what to do. Similarly, if you have an item on the late features page, please make sure you fill out the boxes with details if the change impacts the feature for HTML5 or JMP Live.
Congratulations go out this week to Mia Stephens and many others on the JMP team who support our STIPS online course. STIPS has now surpassed 47,000 enrollments worldwide. Wow! Mia reports that we’re getting ready to add Spanish to the STIPS catalog with a Spanish translation of Module 1 set to be released within the next week or two, thanks largely to translation work by JMP SE Marilyn Wheatley!
General Announcements
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- 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
JMP Live
- Aurora: Lots of "wrapping up" tasks. Iteration retrospective, iteration demo, whitebox testing. Put together some initial thoughts for upcoming comprehensive JMP Live 17.0 demo. Bug fixing related to unique package titles, data viewer UI feature.
- Michael G: A whole bunch of bug fixing. Iteration demo. Whitebox testing.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixed numerous bugs and crashes involving multiple group analysis, model launch, autorecalc, and some red triangle menu options. Investigating a bug with modification indices. Supporting Haley with resources for moving forward in her summer project.
- Annie: Worked on fixing a few more challenging control chart bugs and my portion of the Discovery talk I’m doing with Laura Lancaster.
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Started mapping out the Easy DOE chapter and updated equations in the SSE chapter.
- Michael C: Started documenting the Multivariate Embedding platform; documenting other new features for JMP 17.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Designing Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Testing Easy DOE with Jacob. Starting another round of usability tests for MSA Design. Starting a new round of usability tests for Easy DOE. Investigate EA feedback about Design Space Profiler. Preparing presentation about comparisons in JMP 17 with Jianfeng for JMP Discovery Summit.
- Jacob: Testing Design Explorer with constraints. Testing Easy DOE, focusing on Load Design. Writing new tests for Evaluate Design. Creating a checklist of platforms that support Progress Bars (JMP-10112).
Product Management
- Mia:
- Working with Taylor Ferguson on a JMP User Platform Poll. Initial Discovery Meet the Experts planning for Americas, China, Korea and Japan - more details to follow. Reviewing reliability-related wish list items, thanks to Shannon for importing into Jira.
- Wrote an article for InsideJMP, “Planning Ahead to JMP 18”, which includes an internal survey about JMP capabilities and potential high-level initiatives for JMP 18. This article will be featured next week, but if you’d like take part in the survey here is the link: JMP 18 Roadmap - Global Survey.
- Bryan F: Worked on a couple of icons for Workflow Builder for recording behavior, reviewed strings for JMP Live, and started the process of updating splash screens with JMP LLC information. In the UX workstream focused on style, I showed the team a minor color change made to JMP 17 and several more ideas that may be appropriate for JMP 17. I also showed the results from a couple of preference tests. For the UX Workstream focused on function, I showed the results of creating an affinity map of the various ideas for updates to the Bivariate platform. The next step is to create a form to vote on the categories shown in the affinity map. In the UX workstream focused on the development process, we developed plans for conducting follow-up usability tests on MSA Design. We also plan to conduct usability tests of Easy DOE in the near future.
Technical Support
- Duane: Slowly and surely, I am getting ServiceCloud reports set up. Below, you will find the graph of case volume. More to come in the future! On another note, we do not have surveys going out for Service Cloud cases, but we are still getting feedback from our customers. Our first bit of feedback comes within Case 00007091:
Development Operations
- Jim: Several UBSAN Jira tickets were opened. Working with Bob and Mac Host to better plan JMP build retention in server space.
- Nick: Fixed configuration, scripting, sync and submit issues with a documentation PDF creation project that uses Webworks. PDFs are now being created from correct source and submitted to Perforce.
- Shannon: Troubleshooting and testing of PDF creation process with Nick. Wrote a draft of a string duplicate script for L10N. Investigated mystery crashes. Jira triage.
- Myron: Finalized queries for ServiceCloud crash processing and updating Jenkins projects.
Localization
- Angelita: JMP Live Dev to EN string review complete; Tip of the day kits delivered to translation; DJ, MDC/QRC kits delivered to translation for JA and ES; processed JMP Live JA returns.
- Howard: Pre/Post process JMP Live kits and push; Development work on tooling Jiras; debug memoQ kit issue
- Melanie: Validations for JMP Live kits; JSL Conflict checking for portable UI continues; validate builtin returns; validations for sample data stringbot jobs.
- Sandy: Validate JA portable UI return; validations for JMP Live returns; Testing Howard’s development work (tooling Jiras); meeting scheduled to discuss automation of L10N processes.
- Trish: Project mgmt. L10N schedule, projects & Jira; Invoices processed; created new and updated existing Jira queries on Confluence to track L10n process and team’s Jiras.
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Susan C: Continuing to update JMP Live installation help and go through install JIRAs. Working on JMP Live JSL and CLI updates. Finished up FrameMaker template updates. Attended JMP Live demo. Reworked Confluence meeting notes pages in our JMP Documentation space.
- Qiana: Corresponded with Rachel about some copyright questions. Worked on Sample Data Tables. Received localization training from Trish. Helped, where I could, with PDF build script issues.
- Chris B: Updating Sample Data Index window. Expanding a dashboard for the noindex tags and the “For the latest help” banner to look at all versions in all languages. Looking at JMPDOC-1468 (equation rendering issue in Mac Preview). Recovering from Moderna booster.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey: Work with Daniel Powell on our Check for Updates server (now production in AWS) and monitoring that data as it comes in from external users, training with interns, meet with Clinical team to share about installer testing and end-of-release tasks, verifications, starting investigations into issues with non-English baseline tests.
- Nick H: Verifications for script editor work has surfaced a few bugs which I have created new Jiras for. I have also made some fixes/enhancements to the OSI and discovered some bugs and inconsistencies there as well. I (hopefully) fixed a crash that was occurring in testSearch for Chinese language that was really a timeout caused by a popup window. Continuing some ongoing work on some documentation for JMP Search Unit Testing, as well as an enhancement to the JSL Testing GUI.
- Lisa G: Worked on 17.0 verifications, reviewed image diffs, tested expression column support in graph builder & submitting tickets for issues with hover labels, and entered regression ticket for histogram with an overlay.
- Mandy: Working on a Workflow Builder demo and verifying JIRA tickets. Chasing down a crash that Mia found editing HTML text in a data table and pasting text on the Mac. Mia suggested I work on a blog post for Workflow builder as I work through the demo so will work on that next week.
- Josh: Creating Spaces in JMP for open in JMP testing. This included a large folder structure starting with 100 reports and ending with 2500 reports. Waiting on some Jira bugs to be resolved before I can continue.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 05 Stories in Testing
- 114 Stories in Test Ready
- 48 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 92 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. The testing assumes a fictitious company which used JMP Live 16.2 and upgraded to JMP Live 17 recently. The testing is to make sure its businesses goes smooth after upgrading. For now, the testing data in JMP Live 16.2 has been prepared. And test server has been upgraded to JMP Live 17. Details can be found in Scenario-based Testing for JMP Live 17.
- I18N testing for JMP Live 17 Round#2 has been done. Details can be found in JMPTESTBJ-212.
- Eric Wang: (1) Test JMP Live Jira stories/bugs. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Prepared 16.2 test data. Backup database/server. Upgraded server to 17 and rolled back to 16.2 since WEBJMP-5287.
- Da Li: (1) Test JMP Live Jira stories/bugs. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Prepared 16.2 test data.
- Mike Wu: (1) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Prepared 16.2 test data. (2) Citrix testing for JMP 17 ( JMPTESTBJ-1588) and JMP Clinical 17 ( JMPTESTBJ-1589). (3) JMP 17.0 Html5 profilers with missing values regression testing – Verified and closed 9 bugs. (4) JMP Live I18N Round 2 testing completed.
- Kimi: (1) Test JMP/JMP Live Jira stories/bugs. (2) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Prepared 16.2 test data.
- Nala: (1) Preparing JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing. Prepared 16.2 test data. (2) Tested new argument "Timeout()" for CAS functions. Details can be found in JMP-12456. (3) Tested JMP Preferences for JMP language switching, see JMP-12221 . (4) Test JMP/JMP Live Jira stories/bugs.
- JMP Jira: 4 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 22 Bugs / Stories verified ( Link)
- JMP Live Jira: 35 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 92 Bugs / Stories verified ( link )
Data Discovery
- Dan S: More work on Fit Group launch performance. Continuing to fix truncation issues on output to EPS / PDF / SVG / HTML and other export formats. Fixed issue with tab overflow when tabs are closed programmatically.
- Dave B: Fixing the limit on the number of sets that can be used for categorical variables in parallel plot, working on PlotCol streaming out with a top AxisBox.
- Xan: Expression picture column support in axes, legends and hover labels; hidden rows handling in bar charts; legend improvements in Process Screening.
DOE
- Peng:
- Crowdsourced with Caleb to scrape some autonomous vehicle data from public sources and started to work on a conference talk project. Fixed a crash in Reliability Growth that Caleb discovered while analyzing the data. Continued research on analyzing recurrence data.
- Worked with Evan and Annie on providing a generic solution in the portable layer, so that when a user broadcasts a command that saves some results to a new table, the portable layer will recognize the situation and combine individual tables into a single table with ID labels. However, during the code review process, we realized that the impact of the change is too broad, and it is too late in the development cycle. I decided to postpone the change until the beginning of the next release.
- Scraped data off two old papers that Bill Meeker provided and analyzed them with the Repeated Measures Degradation. The platform works as expected. Reported my findings.
- Joseph: Continued Easy DOE work, mainly Analyze, Predict, and Report tabs and related transitions between Guided and Flexible mode. Also, working through various bugs.
- Caleb: Fixed some crashes in Compare Designs. Started work on a reliability project with Peng, looking at disengagement data on autonomous vehicles from the California DMV. We’re looking to present on this project at the ISSRE conference in Charlotte and perhaps JMP Discovery. Had a great time representing JMP at patent dinner with Laura Castro-Schilo!
Host
- Michael H: Added a command line option “-Stringish YES” to easily use “hack mode” for a Mac Debug build. (“Stringlish” was suggested by John Sall and I think it’s a great name for this!)
- Daniel: JMP Check for Updates has worked in production successfully and we have now retired the old SAS managed tomcat server!
Note from Shannon
I attended a session for parents on Thursday led by Lisa Allred from the SAS Work Life Center about talking to your kids about recent mass shootings, managing their fears and your own anxiety about recent events. You can find a recording of Lisa’s comments here. Thanks to Janet Stone for forwarding the invite - I noticed I was not the only JMP parent on the call.
After the recording, Lisa opened the floor for parents to express their thoughts and feelings about recent events and ask further questions about how best to approach this topic with kids in a low-anxiety, age-appropriate way. She also provided some handouts on talking to your kids with SAS-specific info (<\\d73817\public\Dev Meetings\Talking to Children About School Violence.pdf>) and one that could be shared outside of SAS (<\\d73817\public\Dev Meetings\Community Handout on School Violence.pdf>).
If it feels like this is happening more often than ever, that’s because it is. According to Pew Research, the number of active shooter incidents in the US has risen over the last two decades. Mass shootings only account for 2% of US gun deaths, however. While mass shootings and murders may get the most press coverage, consistently over time, more than half of gun deaths are suicides. I lost a close childhood friend to gun suicide several years ago on the day before Mother’s Day. Perhaps you or someone you know has lost friends and family members in this way.
My brother-in-law serves in the Navy and has shared that gun suicide is a big problem in the military and among veterans. My friend was serving in the border patrol in upstate NY when he died. More US soldiers die of suicide than die in war operations (NPR, 2021) and not surprisingly, suicide rates are higher in the military than in the general population.
This Memorial Day, I remember members of the military who died in wars and conflicts in service of our nation and its ideals. I also remember those who died not in battle but due to other causes after serving our country. This includes my friend, many soldiers and veterans who have suffered injuries and incurable wounds, and my father-in-law Roy who died of lung cancer related to exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
You are free to share your opinions on topics like mass shootings, mental and physical health of active duty military personnel and veterans, suicide prevention and other gun violence in our community by reaching out to your elected government representatives. It only takes a moment to voice text an email, tweet at or call your elected representatives if you have thoughts on their positions on these topics or any others.
Hope you have a relaxing and thoughtful long weekend!
