Welcome to the JMP Development Update for December 9, 2022!
It was great to see many Cary folks at the JMP Winter Thanks lunch yesterday! I hope that you had a chance to try some new foods and meet a few new people. I was happy to meet several SAS and JMP people whose names I knew but had not met in person yet. I even found a volunteer for a 2023 dev meeting demo (thanks to Aurora Tiffany-Davis and Eric Hill for the intro)! Big thanks to all our SAS colleagues who help us throughout the year, and much appreciation to everyone from JMP who shopped, cooked, baked, and sent treats from afar for this special event.
We were also fortunate to have Peng Liu, Mark Bailey and Jacob Rhyne present at the JMP Dev meeting yesterday! The DOE team has collaborated on some amazing prototype and usability testing work for their new factor list and they’re very excited to show it off to early adopters when we cut our first JMP 18 EA (planned to freeze in early February). In addition to working through iterations on this specific feature, DOE team members have been active participants in the JMP UX work group and devoted significant time to developing a process that other JMP groups can leverage.
At yesterday’s meeting, we also said congratulations to Bob Hickey and Brad Jones who both celebrated their 25 year anniversary with JMP this month. Thanks to Bob for sharing this picture from their SAS orientation group! You can check out the recording to watch the tributes as well as the demo that followed:
Optional JMP Dev Demo_ Usability Study of a DOE Factor List-20221208_100022-Meeting Recording.mp4 (a downloaded copy of the meeting can also be found here: <\\d73817\Public\Dev Meetings>.
Thanks very much to Audrey Shull for sharing these Jira Tips of the Week!
- If you notice the timestamps in Jira are all in GMT for you, you can set your personal time zone on this settings page: https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/account-preferences. It's much easier to interpret local timestamps than converting from GMT. J
- We encourage you to start using the Planned Version field in Jira. Planned Version is a way for us to show ‘Intent to Fix’ in a different field than ‘Actually Fixed’. We’d like to move towards Fix Version meaning ‘Actually Fixed’ or ‘Actively Being Worked On’ and allowing Planned Version to show intent. This will also mean that the :OPEN tag on our version values will not be needed. Expect to hear more about this in the coming weeks!
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.1 Doc Freeze – 12/21/22
- JMP 17.1 Code Approval Starts – 1/6/23
- JMP 17.1 L10N Freeze – 1/16/23
- JMP 17.1 Code Freeze – 1/27/23
- JMP 18 EA1 Freeze – 2/3/23
- JMP 18 EA2 Freeze – 4/7/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Development Operations
- Bob: Continued along with my STIPS classes. Enhanced the ability of version 18 Windows installer to read in admin supplied custom data. Celebrated 25th anniversary with JMP. Thanks for all the kind words and notes. The people with JMP and SAS make it a great place to work!
- Jim: Working on adding a M1 Ventura UT run for JMP 18.0 (JMPTOOL-651). Provided feedback for testing dashboard (JMPTEST-556). Reported assertion failures as a result of the most recent LEAKS UT run. Perforce support.
- Myron: Updated/fixed/manually intervened with the scripts to create 17.1 and 17.0 help (JMPTOOL-582). Updates to the telemetry DB and moved telemetry file processing scripts to jmptool.
- Melanie: Finalized Sample Data tables for 17.1. Finished Product Security Training Part 2. Updated various process pages in Confluence.
Documentation
- Qiana: Met with Evan and others to discuss JMP Search, Learn JMP, and Help in JMP 18.0. Prepared for Devon’s arrival (contractor). Worked on JMP 17.1 Jiras. Met with Danielle Pavliv about inclusive language and sensitivity in sample data tables (JMP-12775 and JMP-14340). Worked with Myron to produce JMP Help for 17.1.
- ChrisB: Worked on JMPDOC-1567, the syntax for Get Column Names, and also more generally locating where the Scripting Index syntax and the syntax in the doc don’t match. The style problem has appeared again, so looking at that. Finally, piecing together how we could write our own helpKey lookup so that help at dark sites might work.
- Susan C: Finished implementing Ross’s feedback on the student subscription calculators and provided the PDFs for help. Working on the template updates for 17.1 help. Reviewed Tom’s Genetics chapters and provided updates. Working on JMP Live Jiras for 17.1.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Nick H: Added a date lookback slider to the test history graphs in the Testing Dashboard to let you see fewer days of past data in the graph (from the default of 30 down to 5). Opened a Jira for an issue reported in the JMP Community where New Window()would sometimes open to the bottom of a report instead of the top – already fixed by Dan S. Verified and created image tests for a number of 18/17.1 bugs, notably font related messages not effecting change in ListBoxBox and Plot Col Axis is off with two line column titles. Starting to learn about JMP AWS VM infrastructure in hopes to support our group with creating and maintaining these machines in the future. Working with Andrew to resolve some failing unit tests related to color changes that he’s made.
- Mandy: Verifying some JIRA tickets and adding test cases for data filter changes and a few others. Testing workflow builder at 18, with a few new pushes/feature changes. Attended Winter Thanks. Planning to spend the rest of the year on JIRA’s and Workflow builder examples and testing.
- Audrey: Q4 end-of-year conversations with staff, staging a new primary PC, Jira admin stuff, reviewing discussion ideas regarding the JMP Live+HTML automation demo.
- Mike M: Working to recreate tech support crash, finished security classes, found a couple bugs with new EditFocus work, added a new Jira for DataTablePlotColBox axis issue, and added a new Sikuli test for basic Columns Viewer.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing team: JMP Live 17.1 installers NLS testing has been done. The localization of the installers looks good. JMP Live updater 17.1 and JMP Live Database updater 17.1 seem have some issues. Brian and Josh are helping look into the issues. Details can be found here: JMPTESTBJ-1812. JMP Live 17.1: Installer NLS Testing.
- Eric Wang: (1) Focusing on JMP Live stress testing this week. Updated result collection to record number of events and failed events. Updated test scripts to output more logs for debugging. Publishing script now supports to publish data from more than one folder.
- Da Li: (1) Verify OSIPI bug (JMP-13835). (2) Verify and close JMP Live stories/bugs, which are related to components Client-General and Publish-JMP. (3) DONE: JMP Live 17.1 NLS testing for language ITALIAN.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 18.0 bugs regression testing. (2) JMP 18.0 Telemetry testing completed, details can be found from: JMPTESTBJ-1770. (3) Started the research/investigation on some more databases JMP to-support: MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch. please find details here.
- Kimi: (1) UT Failures for Formula Depot, updated bench files for JMP 18.0. (2) JMP Live 17.1 NLS Testing. (3) Jenkins: Add JMeter Load Testing in UT Beijing Env. – in progress [JMPTESTBJ-1817] New Tests: Create Jenkins job running the JMeter test suite once a week. (4) Preparing work summary for 2022.
- Da Zhang: (1) JMP Live 17.1 installer NLS testing for German (Done) (2) Completed Baseline UT failures cleanup for Japanese in JMP 17.1. (3) Verifying WinAutomation defect. (4) Working on JSL scripts to handle load test results generated by JMeter. (5) Got approval for installing UTM (a virtualization application running on Apple) and installed macOS Ventura/macOS Monterey for testing
- Nala: (1) JMP Live 17.1 NLS testing for French and Chinese. (2) Test JMP Live 17.1 Updaters, details can be found from [JMPTESTBJ-1824] JMP Live 17.1: JMP Live Updater testing for all supported languages (3) Write JMP Live Load Testing. (4) Verify bugs.
Data Discovery
- Xan: Trying a 17.1 version of a more complicated 18 Graph Builder crash fix regarding Undo.
- Evan: Fixed JSL parser issue with “name”n. Putting final touches on searching LRTs.
- Sibusizo: Fixing uniform scaling in application of color gradients in cellplot.
DOE
- Peng: Working with Bill Meeker to finalize the section in his research paper, which is related to my work. Started working on factor list prototype again after yesterday’s presentation. It ain’t done yet, more features, more maintenance, into the future!
- Brad: Reviewing two papers for the journal, Quality and Reliability Engineering International.
Host
- Michael H: Worked on preparing JMP for the forthcoming MATLAB that is Apple Silicon-native. This new MATLAB version is currently in beta test and JMP needed some tweaks to properly call it.
- Paul N: Progress on Map Server replacement - this week I succeeded in generating map tiles using the north-america-pacific data set (primarily Hawaii). Now that the main functionality has been test, started the process of loading the planetary scale street map data into the database. Compressed binary source data is ~71Gb, which gets loaded into the PostgreSQL database, creating tables and relationships. Loading the north-america-pacific data took 3 minutes since it’s mostly water. The planetary data load is at 24 hours and counting.
- Daniel: The DEV Activation Server has successfully tested and changes are now being moved to the TEST level for future testing. Work is in progress to upgrade both security and availability for our AWS system, which improve our resilience to region outages.
HTML5
- Mike S: Continued onboarding tasks, including getting familiar with my new Mac and setting it up for development. Began the JMP New User Welcome Kit videos and began looking at our code. Completed the Privacy by Design course.
- John Powell: Investigated an issue with graphs going blank in JMP Live (JMP-14895). Helping Mike Stickles settle in. Improved marker selection and hoverlabels to handle overlapping points(JMPHTML-502, JMPHTML-1038).
Statistics
- Annie: Working on adding the new Short Run category of charts to control chart builder, and this week worked a bunch with Xan to override another Graph Builder role-location and finally get the “Part ID” hot spot & drop zone working correctly. (Thank you, Xan!) Now, I’m starting work on importing part-specific information (target & sigma).
- Laura: Submitted my work to get to the Simulation Experiment in the Profiler Simulator to respect linear constraints (JMP-4281). I did this by calling the Fast Flexible Filling designs via internal JSL to use as my experiment and adding support where needed for all of the simulated values to obey constraints.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Documentation updates for 17.1, specifically for SEM, Mixed Models, and GLMM.
- Karen: Working on misc. 17.1 defects ahead of DOC freeze.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Presented the new factor list project to JMP Dev with Peng and Jacob. Met with UI/UX workstream to identify remaining tasks and carry-over actions for next year. Recorded presentation for JMP Discovery Summit Europe with Jianfeng. Work with Brad, Ryan, and Joseph on changes for Easy DOE in JMP 17.1/18.0. Reviewed a technical resource by Tom Donnelly about Custom DOE for SEs. Determined default choices of optimality criterion in Custom Design under different conditions and user paths.
- Jacob: Preparing DOE Factor UI Usability Study Dev Meeting presentation with Mark and Peng. Testing Sample Size Explorers (Backing up Yeng while she is on leave). Verifying Jira tickets and investigating potential performance issues. Started working on tool for future usability studies with Mark Bailey.
- Tonya: Updating unit tests due to recent ANOMV changes. Bug verification. Unit test clean up.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Attended a second meeting with UserTesting to get a demonstration of their software. I provided some feedback to Evan and Ernest concerning JMP Search and Workflow builder, respectively. I also provided feedback on the new DOE factor input table design. I met with Greg Kraus to discuss how to update VPATs for JMP 17 and began updating them. I plan to publish those next week. I asked John Schroedl to present some experimental UI work using Telerik theming, which he graciously did. Finally, I coordinated with Dan Schikore on a potential improvement to accessing tooltip help within JMP tables.
Technical Support
- Wendy: In years past, Tech Support has enjoyed being invited to Winter Thanks. This year, we enjoyed participating in hosting the event, as this is the first one since we were moved into JMP! Thank you to everyone who helped to make the event so smooth. As usual, the food was great and we especially enjoyed catching up with everyone!
- Bobby: HUGE thanks to Brian Corcoran, Josh LoPresti, Michael Goff, Chris Humphrey, Aaron Andersen, Alex Lippincott, and Dieter Pisot for taking so much of their time to work with Intel on troubleshooting their JMP Live 17 install.
- Here are the standard TS JMP Live reports and the usual plot of case volume is below. Also, here is a Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
Note from Shannon
I’m a fan of online shopping, especially this time of year when the stores are so crowded, so I thought this comic was cute! Have a wonderful weekend, all!
https://www.cagle.com/jimmy-margulies/2019/12/online-christmas-shopping
