Just a reminder that it is a SAS 3rd Weekend Maintenance weekend. JMP development processes and virtual/physical machines will likely be impacted. When is a 3WM, you will see this kind of banner on Inside SAS:
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 16, 2022!
This was a very busy week for those who participated in JMP Discovery Summit in Cary. It was great to see many JMP colleagues and customers from far and near in person over at the EBC! Customers ran the gamut from longtime users to those relatively new to JMP. While holding the “Ask Me” sign and during other Discovery activities, I talked to former CAB members, EA customers, and new users I had not met before from sites ranging from the extremely large (thousands of users) to extremely small (trying to get an initial license purchased) in terms of JMP users. They they all had one thing in common – they wanted to learn more about our products and features and expand their usage.
Thanks very much to the JMP events team, the EBC team, the C café and caterers, the Discovery Steering Committee and all on the JMP and SAS teams who contributed to make this in-person session a success! If you have not heard, we have 10x as many customers signed up for the virtual Discovery events. Please do volunteer for virtual Meet the Experts if you’d like the chance to (hopefully) connect with more customers. Attendance at virtual sessions is sometimes hard to predict, but you can certainly do other things while waiting for the next customer to drop by.
On Tuesday, just before the start of Discovery, Audrey announced that JMP QA teams have signed off on JMP 17.0 installers! Thanks very much to our testing teams for reporting issues as they worked through the process. There are a lot of configurations and a checklist to run through for each one and I really appreciate the time testers spend to vet all our various installers before they go to customers. Also, thanks to all who have helped triage bug items in Jira tagged with 17.0:OPEN over the last few weeks! I’ll continue to look at items with no Fix Version assigned and stray story items as we head into next week and may be contacting you with questions.
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- SAS Commit to Ship – 9/19/22
- JMP QA Signoff - 9/20/22
- JMP 17 Ship Date – 10/18/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
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- Elizabeth: Discovery! Great conversations with users, as always. Continuing work on additional distributions for GLMM. I also saw this [attached photo] in the parking lot on Wednesday evening. JMPTEST was nearby, but not close enough to include in the photo. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
- John Sall: Fix Profiler for handling the "Integrate" function (JMP-14114).
- Annie: Besides attending Discovery and entering the requests I heard, I’ve fixed a few Control Chart bugs.
- Laura C-S: Participated in Discovery, implemented some suggestions (JMP-14140)from one of our Discovery VIPs, Ken Bollen, and prepared for Online Discovery presentation.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Attended in-person session of JMP Discovery Summit. Conducted usability tests in JMP Lab for Easy DOE and Workflow Builder. Answered questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Attending Discovery, working on processing feedback from usability studies. Updating the performance testing suite for JMP 18. Responding to beta feedback.
Product Management
- Congratulations to Dan Valente on his promotion to Director of Product Management and Mia Stephens on her promotion to PM team lead! We are very fortunate to have Dan, Mia, Dieter, Sara, Sam, Bryan, and newest addition Sarah Sylvestre as partners in the JMP development process.
- Bryan F: Usability lab logistics & data processing. Contributed to/participated in Looks Are Everything Roundtable. Ideation session for improvements to Easy DOE. Helped debug issue with JMP 18 HTML5 template file.
Technical Support
- Duane: It was good to see everyone at the Discovery Summit (customers as well as our friends and coworkers at JMP). The feedback I heard from customers was very positive regarding the conference. I imagine the online portion will be just as popular! Regarding TS, I have been able to update the TS JMP Live reports. Additionally, I’ve attached the legacy track/case count by week below.
Development Operations
- Jim: Created JMP Clinical 17.0 installer for mac OS. Troubleshooting various issues, from problems with the HTML5 Template.html file to the low/no application memory for JMP 18.0 on mac OS UT machines to Microsoft Visual Studio updates.
- Shannon: JMP 17.0:OPEN deferrals. Mystery crash investigations. Held the “Ask Me About JMP!” sign and helped direct traffic at Discovery Meet the Experts. Jira issue triage and deferrals.
Documentation
- Susan C: Working on Confluence Documentation space revamp. Working on cut-off equation issue in JMP Help. Implementing and testing fixes. Completed Phishing training that was due by the end of October. Attended meeting with Qiana for ePublisher and assisting with Help.
- ChrisB: Pinned down why some of our links in PDFs weren't working. A quick StringBot review. A bit more work getting the 'noindex' tags straight.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Attended Discovery and answered questions on a variety of topic including Workflow builder. Logged a few suggestions in Jira and updated the Confluence page. Working on a Windows crash that showed up on 8/31 for JMP 18.0 nightly runs, with a rapid test flow, but no one can make the crash happen in real time. Evan thought it was his push and he backed it out but that didn’t fix it - still a mystery. Catching up on 17.1 and 18.0 JIRA tickets, verifying and adding tests if needed. Need to tweak my Workflow builder demo / examples a bit to prepare for another Development tutorial I’m doing later in October for Gail M.
- Nick H: Worked on updating and adding ‘KnownIssue’ tags for the summary tables reporting currently failing unit tests in JMP 18 that are associated with Jira tickets. Corrected a number of my failing tests in the 17.1 and 18 tracks. Worked on adding Generalized Linear Mixed Model descriptions to JMP Starter under the Pro Platforms tab of the ‘JMP Pro’ category. Also have been working on verifications for both 18 and 17.1 and filed a couple of new bugs for 18.0 that could be integrated into 17.1.
- Audrey: Investigating some mysterious crashes in the JSL test framework that may have to do with the order tests run in, re-learning how to run suffix runs to help debug these issues. Q3 check-ins with team members this week and next. Still arranging Atlassian training.
- Lisa: Worked on 18.0 bug verifications and adding tests, responded to a feedback track regarding the configure levels feature, and started work on refining the crashes without defects table.
- Mike M: Worked on verifying defects, mostly crash related. Opened 5 new Jiras. Currently working to verify encrypted application crash defect and create a Sikuli test for that.
- Josh L: JMP Live Jira story testing. Worked on solving the mystery of why JMPLIVEDay has been having issues with the JMP Pool stopping after the 1st time it is started. Refactored some of the JMPLive server installation scripts.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Testing missing audit logs (WEBJMP-2026). Fix missing audit log records, caused by where the audit logging is done. (2) Added End-to-End tests for refreshing data via ODBC, including: New common functions to create credential, assign credential etc. Check the username/password in source script and refresh script (should be placeholder). Refresh data via creating database connection. Refresh data via Open Database() function. refresh data with JMP Query Builder. Also merged to 17.1 branch.
- Da Li: (1) Jira tickets verification. (2) Testing JMP 18 new feature (JMPTESTBJ-1692).JMP-13466 Import multiple Excel files (xlsm, xlsx, xls, etc.) with same format and combine to 1 single file. (3) Investigating and fixing the unit tests failures in the nightly run framework. (4) Investigated TS reports Case Number 00025058, answer OSIPI import question.
- Mike Wu: (1) Jira tickets verification. (2) Investigation the Telemetry changes for 17.1 & 18, created a draft confluence page for Telemetry testing.
- Kimi: (1) Regression Testing for JMP Pro 17.1 and 18.0 on windows. (2) Jenkins related work: Fix the Failure “cp: /Users/jmptest/Library/Application Support/JMP/JMPLiveSavedConnections: No such file or directory” on mac. Extend the disk size of template image. Create a new doc User Guide of Jenkins - China R&D JMP Testing Team - SAS R&D Confluence. Updated docs under Beijing team JSL Unit Tests Framework - China R&D JMP Testing Team - SAS R&D Confluence
- Da Zhang: (1) Getting familiar with JMP Live features. (2) Tested jmplive-cli. (3) Testing ‘Manage JMP Live Connection’ on Windows.
- Nala: (1) Jira tickets verification. (2) Investigating the OLE failures in Beijing team's Jenkins environment. (3) Q3 Conversations with team. (4) Attend "Manager Journey" training.
- JMP Jira: 1 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 12 Bugs / Stories verified ( Link)
- JMP Live Jira: 3 Bugs / Stories created ( Link ), 5 Bugs / Stories verified ( link )
Data Discovery
- Evan: Finished jslmatch library for statically inspecting/rewriting JSL from C++. Attended Discovery, talked with users, and filed their bugs and feature requests. Working through output of JMP Search usability study. Investigating mysterious unit test crashes with Mandy. JMP Search improvements and prototypes. Bug fixes.
- Dan S: Added support for using JSL class methods as callbacks for <
- Ernest: Discovery support, usability studies, Columns Viewer experimentation.
DOE
- Caleb: Participated in JMP Discovery, where we got a lot of praise and feedback for Easy DOE! Also got some other suggestions for enhancements and future platforms. Had a great time seeing people in person!
- Peng: Continued working on the factor list prototype for DOE. Continued researching with Bill Meeker. Congratulations on another successful Discovery! Miss making those customer connections.
- Brad: Gave a one hour talk on design and analysis of deterministic computer experiments for Doug Montgomery's DOE Coursera.
HTML5
- John Powell: Attended JMP Discovery Summit. Reviewed a couple of candidates for our C++ Developer position. Fix a problem with a new regression test crashing (JMPHTML-1812). Investigated a case where Interactive HTML provides less precision than JMP on hover label data. Fixed a bug with bar segment displaying an incorrect label by percent of total (JMPHTML-1230). Replied to a JMP Community member requesting that Interactive HTML support 3D Scatterplots.
- Paul Spychala: Discovery 2022 Americas! Also, we now have HTML support for confidence intervals in the Fit Group platform (JMPHTML-1802).
JMP Live
- Aurora: Apart from Discovery, worked on trivial bug fixes and started investigations into user permissions caching and obsolete REST API routes.
- Michael G: Attended Discovery. Was pleased to learn how much excitement there is around data refresh. Continued work on Project Ruby.
Note from Shannon
Thanks very much to Peng Liu for passing along this funny (and relevant) tweet! Hope you all have a great weekend!
