Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 12, 2022.
This week, we continue to finalize end-of-release tasks for JMP 17.0. Simultaneously, many developers have started work in JMP 18.0 and are integrating some fixes to JMP 17.1. It’s a busy time all around.
A gentle reminder to all developers to please triage items in your areas that still have 17.0:OPEN as the Fix Version. To help you – please click here to review the 17.0:OPEN items assigned to you.
- Update items you hope to address in 17.1 and 18 by changing the value to 17.1:OPEN or 18.0:OPEN, or both if appropriate.
- For Stories on your 17.0:OPEN list that you don’t expect to get to in 18, demote them to Feature Requests.
- View the bulk update how-to page. (Or ask for my help, I’m happy to do a batch update for you)
Work continues on development of My JMP, a web portal where customer administrators will be able to log in and download JMP and license files for JMP and JMP Pro. I saw an impressive demo of My JMP this week, showing off how easy this new customer experience will be. Teams are driving hard toward our October JMP 17 delivery date to be able to point customers to this resource, rather than the SAS Download Manager. We can look forward to a demo of My JMP in the JMP Development meeting in September. Congratulations the Salesforce team and Community Operations team on the progress!
General Announcements
The default install locations on Windows have been updated to remove “SAS” from the default install dir. (JMP-12376) If you are a Visual Studio user, please see email from John Schroedl earlier today detailing how to configure VS. (Thanks, John!)
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17 L10N Freeze – 8/12/22 – today
- JMP 17 Localized PDF Freeze 8/16/22
- First JMP 17 Final Installer Candidate – 8/23/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
- Please visit this page to view bug verification lists for JMP 17.0.
Statistics
- John Sall: Fixed a bug in the Grouped regressors effect type when used as Random effects, for both Fit Mixed and Fit Least Squares[REML]. Fixed in both main and 17.1. The problem was reported by Russ Wolfinger in a Genetics application where one variance component would reach over hundreds of gene regressors. Elizabeth Claassen is working on this also. Chris Gotwalt is working on a scaled-up version of this where tens of thousands of regressors could be used. (https://rndjira.sas.com/browse/JMP-13710). Made a number of UX changes to the Design Space Profiler in response to a usability study conducted by Bryan Fricke. (https://rndjira.sas.com/browse/JMP-13697)
- Laura C-S: Pushed a big change adding a new estimator for starting values in SEM—so far it seems overall performance and convergence has improved for models with latent variables. Emailed a couple lengthy answers to questions about SEM.
Stat Testing & Documentation
- Tonya: Testing the new feature Save Tolerance as Spec Limits. Answered a user community question about nonparametric capability analysis. Working on blog posts for V17 new features.
- Jacob: Participating in the UI/UX workstream, processed results of Nick Shelton’s usability study and monitored another usability study completed by Kaylee Warren. Investigating unit test failures from nightly runs and cleaning unit tests. Testing Predict tab in Easy DOE and updating unit tests. Taking Product Security Training course
- Colleen: Writing more unit tests for screen shots in the stat documentation.
DOE
- Peng: Making changes into 17.1 or related to 17.1. Research work with Bill Meeker. And participated in the second part of Jira feature request review meeting on reliability with Mia, Leo, Don, Ryan, and Rajneesh.
Data Discovery
- Xan: Fixes for MCC hover labels, GB ellipse weights, RowState scoring
- Evan: Attempting to implement multithreaded evaluation of some Data Table formulas.
- DaveB: Triaging MFI jira tickets, added full file path and file name to tables imported with mfi, fixed topseg clipping issue when frame has addend set, merging 18.0 fixes into 17.1
- Ernest: Workflow builder: fixes and tools for handling table/column references.
- DanS: Fix crashes (export empty journal, drag/drop in Tabulate, open AppBuilder from AddIn). Fixes for session files (ignore dialogs / unsaved Project windows). Switch Projects to use new session file code in 18. Add support for LineUpBox and CenterBox to session / JRP files. Fix GB Violin plot on log axis.
Host
- John Schroedl: Updated jmptojava files to latest Azul JVM. Workflow icon updates. Investigating unexpected quarantine messages from SAS laptops. Trying to repro crash in long-running script from Adsurgo. More telemetry work.
- Daniel P: Working on a change to the AWS PER file generation for JMP 18 and beyond. Also working on Python data transfer.
HTML5
- John P: Triaged Jira items. Refined/groomed JMPHTML project backlog. Updated fix for Oneway Jittering support to work when exported from JSL and regenerated on JMP Live (JMPHTML-638). Submitted a fix for axis and graph titles shifting when switching to dark theme(JMPHTML-1531). Investigating support for SAS Streetmap server based map backgrounds (JMPHTML-889). Uploaded a version of the journal I used in my Discovery talk that creates JMP reports rather than launching reports from an internal JMP Live server
- Paul Spychala: After fixing my issues with Perforce (thanks Jim), I have integrated into 17.1 html bold font styles for Titles and TextBox, customized font sizes for html categorical profilers, and other text and font issues.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 17.1: Fixed some missing audit log records. 18.0: Summarized what we hope to sort out with Administering Users, Groups, and Spaces. Created some Jira items from orphaned "todo" comments in our code. Miscellaneous: JMP Live Dashboard troubleshooting. Prep for Discovery.
Product Management
- Bryan F:
- Easy DOE Usability Testing
- Communicated/coordinated with potential candidates
- Processed results from Byron Wingerd
- Conducted usability test with Marilyn Wheatley
- Discovery Summit Usability Logistics
- Communicated with Jeff Perkinson (thanks!) to get Zoom license
- Communicating with individual volunteers
- Communication with legal about NDA
- Initial meeting with Aaron Anderson about updates to JMP Project for JMP 18
- Provided overview of how to conduct usability test to volunteers from Functional UX Workstream
Technical Support
- As you may have seen on InsideJMP, Kai Janson joined our team earlier this month from SAS Technical Support Germany. Kai has been a fantastic partner supporting JMP since version 6 and we are thrilled to have him officially part of our team!
- We are happy to learn from John Jones that the entitlement period for downloading subscription software has been removed. This fix should make for a better experience for our various subscription customers.
- Next week, we look forward to welcoming Duane Hayes back on Tuesday!
Development Operations
- Trish: Localization is frozen for 17.0 for software and doc shipping with JMP. Remaining for 17.0: Localized JMP Live and HTML5 Online help and JMP Deployment Guides. Work is underway to get stringbot and scanbot running for 17.1 for next weekend.
- Bob: Worked with Audrey and Jim to design safe folder design containing all the latest nightly installers in one location. Worked with Jeff P on coming changes to support use of My JMP by customers administrators. Modified Windows installers to remove all files from jmptojava folder before updating new files so no chance of old files hanging around
- Jim: Working with the Data Center to remotely access Mac Minis for Jenkins CI build. Adding more testing machines for daily JSL script runs for JMP 17.0 and 17.1. Many (physical) Mac Minis are in the process of being upgraded or restaged; VMs are being created. Perforce support.
Documentation
- Susan: Working on Student Subscription doc. Finished up some overdue training. Attended Bryan’s UX meeting. Watched Portable Strings review meeting video.
- ChrisB: WebWorks training. Corrected some of the noindex tagging in old help. Worked on creating the 17.0 PDFs
- Qiana: Attended an ePublisher 201 course. Updated Automated Refence doc to 17. Performed Help build troubleshooting and FrameScript debugging. Triaged 17.0 Jiras.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Working with Dan S and testing a crash fix for JMP Clinical in 17.1 and 18, a tricky one with some different behaviors on Mac/Win. Working with Ernest and testing Workflow changes that were pushed to 18 and may get integrated back to 17.1. Processing EA feedback. Working with Qiana on a few Documentation items.
- Hunter: Investigated JMP 17 EA 9 issue where a report setting was not persisting properly in project, installed Ventura Beta 5 on MDA692 to confirm JMP-13655 was still present, and verified JIRA items for the Menu Card.pdf and Quick Reference Card.pdf files in all supported languages.
- Josh L: JMP Live 17.0 Regression testing. Updating regress JSL to use the 17.0 changes. JMP Live Dev and Test Server deployments: JMPLIVERelease upgraded to 17.0, JMPLIVEFix upgraded to 17.1, and JMPLiveDaily to 18.0. I refactored some of the code that installs the nightly build. This will allow me more time to test and less time deploying by hand. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
- Mike M: Updated web Sikuli tests for new Chrome icons, worked through very large image diffs for newer 17.1 and 18.0 streams, caught a crash that allowed an illegal combination to run the Fit Model (disabled testcase until Clay updates his code), identifying a couple new Sikuli tests for JMP-4906 and JMP-2804, working to understand and verify TOTD updates for 17.0.
- Nick H: 18.0 verifications. Two EA9 tracks. Adding a new baseline test testAddIn.jsl which has been started to test that the min JMP version field is correct and updated for each new version of JMP. Submitted JSL Search performance tests which will go live as soon as Jacob updates his driver file. Worked on a script to compare JMP preference GUI strings to JSL preference strings, constructing a data table showing which pref strings match completely, partially, or don’t show up in JSL at all. Plan to talk with Ernest about a possible plan to make these strings more consistent in the future.
- Audrey: Along with Brian C, meeting with our migration partner at ClearVision who will help us to move Jira/Confluence to JMP’s own instance, along with a few support items to go along with that. Creating a migration test plan for both Jira and Confluence. Created the covering array that will be used for 17.0 installer testing later this month. Starting to learn about telemetry changes in 17.1 and 18 so we can prepare a test plan for that.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- All: JMP 17 help/doc content review, details can be found in JMPTESTBJ-1674.
- Eric Wang: Updated JMP Live 17 Unit tests and End-to-End tests to run on Beijing Jenkins system. Investigating JMP pool hang/crash issue; created scripts to publish/update all sample data to JMP Live, these fire many events that can reproduce the issue. JMP 17 help/doc content review.
- Da Li: Review help/doc for JMP 17. Verify Jira tickets.JMP Live migration setup in branch 17.1 and main (18.0), add fake test 17.0->17.1 and 17.0/17.1->18.0 and pass those migration automation path.
- Mike Wu: JMP/JMPLive 17 bugs regression testing. Review help/doc for JMP 17.
- Kimi: JMP 17 Help/Doc Testing. JMP 17 Regression supplementary test, tested with Chinese language. Jenkins: Debug the failure of UT on Mac. Add Jenkins migration projects. Generate .iss file of JMP 18.0 for automatically silent installation. Working on support python init/connect testing (via python tool).
- Nala: Review help/doc for JMP 17. Verify Jira tickets. Check-in meetings with Beijing team members.
Have a great weekend everyone! The dog days of summer are officially over, and it’s supposed to be a bit cooler out there, so enjoy it.
