Welcome to the JMP Development Update for October 28, 2022!
This has been a busy week for all as we have learned about our new cloud environments for Jira and Confluence. Huge thanks to Brian Corcoran and Audrey Shull, Shannon Leslie of the SAS Jira team, and our contractors at Clearvision who provided migration assistance and training to get us transitioned and orient the JMP Atlassian admin team!
Audrey gave two presentations this week to highlight the migration and differences between old and new systems, and you can find Monday’s recording for Jira here and Thursday’s recording for Confluence here. (Please let me know if you have any trouble with the links – I will move a copy of each into the dev meeting folder next week.) Over the next few weeks, we will continue to update How-To pages in new Confluence to match the new UI. JMP admins will also begin to be able to consider project, workflow, and other customizations that have been on our wish list for a long time.
Although JMP 17.0 only recently went live for customers (see Duane’s update in the Tech Support section below for some early info), we’re already moving towards wrapping up work on 17.1. Today is our development String Freeze for JMP 17.1. Stringbot will run over the weekend and writers will review final new strings before handoff. It is very helpful as we kick off book translations and localized screenshot work to have this work completed. Thanks for your continued efforts to clean up and rescue strings so that we can send them out for translation!
Finally, JMP life sciences writer Tom Pedersen has put the latest draft of the new book Genomic Analysis with JMP Pro in Confluence. This book is intended to support former JMP Genomics customers as they transition to using JMP Pro for analysis of genetic marker and expression data tables. Russ says, “If you have a little time and some interest in this topic, we would greatly appreciate your taking a look and sending Tom any comments or suggestions (even small typos or suggestions are most welcome).” The team is looking for some internal feedback prior to sharing the book with interested customers. The data sets for the examples are available here if you want to follow along in JMP Pro.
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.1 String Freeze – 10/21/22
- JMP 17.1 Code Freeze – 12/16/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Technical Support
- Duane: It’s been quite a week in TS. We are starting to talk to customers using JMP 17 (not just the demo, too!). Please see the Tabulate results below showing the areas in which they are needing our help.
- We’ve had more activation server issues (this morning) where we were unable to access activation information. Thanks to Daniel Powell for correcting the issue.
- Additionally, CIVE is currently down. This tool is used by software admins to request JMP upgrades.
- JMP’s disconnection from SAS expands, in that work is being done to remove references to JMP from the “SAS OnDemand for Academics” site and the “how to locate your site number” page on the SAS Support site.
- Wendy and I met with both ChulHee and Bryan Yan to gather information on their teams’ interactions with the SAS Customer Engagement Center. We also wanted to learn what their needs are as we move forward. Kai has been set up to now accept phone calls via Omni-Channel in Service Cloud (Thanks, Antoine!) so he will soon be able to assist with handling some phone duty for us.
- And, as per usual, here are the TS JMP Live reports and the usual plot of case/track volume is below. Whew!
JMP 17 Cases since its Availability, 17Oct2022
Product Management
- Bryan Fricke: Participated in product management offsite in DC. Continuing to develop prototype for JMP Search in Figma with the intent of testing with a sizable number of users. Participated in ideation session for addressing gulfs of execution/evaluation with remove factors from model in EasyDOE.
Development Operations
- Melanie: Getting Builtins and Tutorials ready for 17.1 translations. Some setup and testing new Jira/Confluence (yay cloud!). Testing an update for removing the copyright information from our .xstr files. Work with localization on the JMP Live 17.1 English Review.
- Bob: Completed design and creation of Windows Clinical updater. Worked with John Schroedl on version 18 license file processing for annual license products. Assisted SAS IT with getting JMP Pro 17 Windows onto the Company Portal for employees. (The SAS Employee Download site is slowly going away)
- Myron: Working on replacement for JiraBot to restore auto assignment for development roles in new Jira. The old JiraBot app depended on SAS-licensed Kafka event monitoring that is not available in the cloud instance of Jira.
Documentation
- Qiana: Reviewed non-stat UI strings. Made suggestions to developers and answered questions. Continued reviewing resumes of summer intern candidates. Began going through 17.1 Sample Data Table Jiras. Began investigating why the JMP Documentation Library file is being overwritten. Met with WebWorks about cutoff equation and missing screenshot issues.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked mostly on JIRA and Confluence, converting and making my dashboard and personal pages and correcting links. Verifying a few JIRAs and starting to look at Columns Viewer – there is a meeting today to discuss changes at 18. Investigating an issue Drew found where the local data filter does not work correctly with hide and exclude (JMP-14501) that will hopefully be pushed to 17.1 by Dan S. after testing in 18.0.
- Nick H: This week I continued working on tests for class methods as MouseBox callbacks. Adjusted the unit test framework and a unit test or two to account for the change to the JMP roaming path (JMP-12774). I also updated the JMP Dashboard Jira links to use the new Jira server. Fixed up a few other failing unit tests and worked on bug verifications as well. Continuing REACT course.
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Fixes for Fit Group behavior with filters and column switchers. Continuing work on column switcher rerun updates. Additional fixes for HDR contour plots in Graph Builder. Fixes for local data filters in Projects, and updates to continuous filters to honor the Count Excluded Rows option. Fix for scroll box sizing.
- Dave B: Worked with Jianfeng on a seg assert problem and am working on using outline boxes to generate a table of contents when printing reports or journals.
- Evan: Adding guided path when running deep search results so users don’t have to remember as much.
- Xan: Fixed issues with lost histogram bar color and density jitter on a log scale.
DOE
- Peng: Research with Bill Meeker. Learning new Jira and Confluence. Polishing DOE Factor List prototype. Summarizing my work on DOE Factor List and prepare to present.
- Joseph: Worked on resolving StringBot Easy DOE 17.1 string issues and continued Easy DOE JIRA work. Also completed reviews of several research papers for QRS2022 (in Guangzhou, China this year).
- Caleb: Gave a developer tutorial on the new MSA Design platform. It looked like a lot of people were excited for it! Resubmitted my paper with Dennis Lin and fixed a few more Sample Size Explorer bugs.
Host
- Paul N: Interviewing candidates for Security Manager position. Performed Blackduck scan, verifying that we are not vulnerable to the latest Apache Commons Text vulnerability and discovering that libcurl 7.85.0 and the java jdk both have vulnerabilities. Updated libcurl to latest version (7.86.0) for JMP 17.1 and 18.0. Participating in SAS security game and meeting.
- John Schroedl: More changes and fixes related to the SAS to JMP rename. Investigating a high DPI issue related to checkboxes with help from Dan Schikore.
- Daniel Powell: The migration of our JMP Activation Server from an EC2 into AWS Lamba is now in testing at the DEV level!
HTML5
- John Powell:
- Conducted full interview for our first remote developer position candidate. Followed up with candidate and recruiter (Experis). Attended a SAS management course and virtual coaching session. Attended Audrey’s Jira and Confluence demos and applied notes collected for Jira and Confluence during migration.
- Discussed prioritized Feature Requests (labeled PMREQ) for JMP 18.0 with Dieter, Mia, and developers. Provided a response to questions from Tesla about JMP Live content and evaluated a performance issue they ran into. Started planning with Paul S. for a JMP 18 refactoring sprint.
- Investigated a bar color issue and discussed it with Jianfeng (JMPHTML-633). Fixed a Tooltip issue with bars outside of Graph Builder (JMPHTML-1844 ). Answered/redirected a question about Control Chart Warnings on JMP Live. Replied to a JMP User community question about using a local data filter in Interactive HTML.
- Paul Spychala: HTML got support for Logit/Weibull Distribution Math Operations [JMPHTML-1849, JMPHTML-1850]. Initial GLMM Binomial support added to HTML [JMPHTML-1783]. Much of the week was also looking in to all of our HTML Refactoring tasks and getting ready for our refactoring sprint.
- Praveena: Completed work on the bug GB: Markers: Hovering not as precise for markers and started working on GB: Line: Stacked with fill below using missing, hidden, excluded data gives different chart.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 18.0: Fixed a report regeneration bug related to filenames allowed by Mac but not by Windows. Investigating a database deadlock discovered by Josh LoPresti (ongoing). Miscellaneous: Work related to the recent migration of Jira and Confluence. Added some thoughts to Confluence about JMP Live performance.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed strings in 17.1 for consistency and removed duplicate strings in preparation for the upcoming 17.1 string handoff to localization; working through various Jira and Confluence tasks post-migration.
- Karen: Working on reviewing a Genomics with JMP user guide and met with Caleb about a Sample Size Explorers issue which lead to 18.0 upgrade ideas.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Verifying DOE fixes for MSA Design and Easy DOE. Revising an ADI unit test to avoid timeouts in the nightly runs. Preparing a potential Dev meeting talk with Mark Bailey. Started Product Security Level 2 training.
- Mark: Attended sessions about new Jira and Confluence versions. Working through usability testing of Peng’s prototype of a new factor table. Working with DOE Team to set up an R&D site with research and technical resources. Answered questions in JMP Community.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing team: 3rd-party software testing for 17.1, details in JMPTESTBJ-1758.
- Eric Wang: (1) Knowledge share about how to write End-to-End tests. Slides was uploaded to here. (2) Tested new feature that count the data tables that is using a credential. Added integration tests. (3) Tested several Jira stories about removing obsolete API routes.
- Da Li: (1) DONE: 3rd-party software testing for 17.1 SPSS/Minitab/Excel file import, old issues are still there, no new issue found. (2) Verify and close one PDF import bug, add corresponding UT, test new MFI function JMP-203, JMP-3011. (3) Verify JMP Live bugs. (4) Learn and try new Jira Cloud and Confluence cloud. And raise some questions. (5) Postman knowledge sharing slides preparation
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP Pro-Trial 17.1 Telemetry testing completed on Mac. Currently the Intel Mac testing for Trial is blocked by bug JMP-14211. (2) JMP 17.1, 18.0 bugs regression testing. (3) UAT testing completed for Confluence and Jira as part of the migration to cloud against the sandbox instances completed. (4) Using the new Confluence and Jira cloud sites and edited some pages/filters. (5) 3rd party software versions check testing for the ODBC drivers completed, no new issues found. (6) Try out the Windows installers of JMP 18.0 Trial, Sub and Student Sub for activation testing to prepare for the upcoming 18.0 telemetry testing, found some issues for activating JMP 18.0 Trial and Pro-trial and sent issues to Daniel for a look.
- Kimi: (1) Bug verification for both JMP Desktop and JMP Live. (2) Third Party Testing is in progress. Python 3.11 has been released on Oct. 24. (3) Jenkins related work: Updated the passwords of Jenkins and Windows guest, and deleted some absolute users. Change public subnet to private subnet - but change back to public, the private network is not stable, Jenkins’s job failed sometimes. (4) Record 2 demos about the usage of AWS.
- Da Zhang: (1) Added JMP Live E2E tests for JMPTESTBJ-1707, JMPTESTBJ-1708, JMPTESTBJ-1709, JMPTESTBJ-1710, JMPTESTBJ-1711, JMPTESTBJ-1712. Adding test for JMPTESTBJ-1715. (2) Investigated JSL UT failures. (3) Prepare training on Git.
- Nala: (1) Jira tickets verification for JMP Live. (2) Wrote JMP Live migration tests JMPTESTBJ-1533, JMPTESTBJ-1534. (3) Tried new Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud. And provided feedback. (4) Did a little research about IAM. (5) Attended Agile training. (6) Learning how to write JMP Live E2E tes
Note from Shannon
Thanks to John Sall for sharing this Halloween picture taken by one of his daughters! Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
