Special announcement: Thanks very much to Eric Hill for sharing the news that the JMP Live team is hiring! Eric notes, “We are looking for someone with both C++ and JavaScript experience. If you know anyone who might qualify, you can have them apply through this referral link so that you will qualify for a referral bonus. If you have any questions about the position, let me know.”
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for February 3, 2023!
We are now past our JMP 17.1 Code Freeze date and are looking forward to the creation of final installer candidate installers in about a month. As a reminder, if you encounter any showstopper issues for 17.1 from this point on, please continue to follow the process by discussing the issue with your manager first, and then if you agree a late fix is appropriate, pushing the fix to 18.0 for testing or creating a test build for your tester (if the issue is 17.1 only). Once testing has confirmed the fix, please request approval. If there are objections, approvers may request a meeting to discuss the potential fix. I’ll be glad to answer any questions if needed!
We are preparing to kick off the EA program in collaboration with product management. We have reached the freeze date for JMP 18 EA1, and Jim Borek will branch EA files as of the end of the day today and installers will be created early next week. QA teams will be checking those out in the coming week.
Mia says that initial invitations to join the EA program should go out next week, and we’re hoping to officially launch the program and make JMP 18 EA1 available the week of Feb 13 via My.JMP. After the EA program is launched, JMP staff are more than welcome to invite users to join the program. We’ll provide more information once EA1 is available.
All new features and functionality that will be highlighted in the EA program are captured on this JMP 18 Single Source Document. Product management is still compiling this information for EA1, focusing on what we’d like to share with EA members for testing and feedback. We’re already working on how to better use the EA program for feedback and usability studies. If anything is missing, please reach out to Mia Stephens.
Speaking of JMP 18 development, thanks to John Sall for sharing this link to a How to use Taskpool Confluence page where David White documented the new classes for threading. John notes that he is starting to update his code to switch to using these classes. With JMP 18 development in full swing, I’m recruiting for speakers to share progress at March JMP dev meetings. Just let me know if you’d like to present!
If you have any especially cool images you’ve made with JMP, then listen up! We are looking for 7 distinctive images that show off graph options in JMP products. We have an opportunity to display these at JMP Discovery Europe. If you have something interesting to share, please send it along to Sara Doudt, Mia Stephens and Jeff Hudgins with your image as well as the data and script to replicate it.
Here’s a mockup of what the setup looks like with some example images taken from existing marketing materials:
Audrey Shull shared this Jira Tip of the Week:
Thank you to Sarah Sylvestre for making changes in our Jira configuration to make Origin a required field. This means that when you enter new Jira issues (Epics, Feature Requests, Stories, Bugs) you must fill in an origin field value. Details on what the different values mean can be perused here.
Existing issues won’t be affected by this change, but please try to add an Origin value when you’re editing an existing issue, if you see information noted in associated comments or tracks that can help you make the determination. Thanks!
General Announcements
- It was great to see statistical developer Peng Liu’s career journey featured on Inside JMP this week! If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, please do – I’m certain you’ll learn some new things about how Peng found his way to JMP and what he loves about his job. Please contact Alison Hines if you’re interested in participating in this series.
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18 EA1 Freeze – 2/3/23 ß TODAY
- JMP 18 EA2 Freeze – 4/7/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Fixed a boxplot hover label bug. Nick setup a new AWS VM that I am working with to see how well the jmprunner image tests can run on it. Added font support for table box column titles and data rows and column box data rows.
New Window( "Mountains",
tb = Table Box(
scb1=String Col Box( "Mountain", {"K2", "Delphi", "Kilimanjaro", "Grand Teton"} ),
scb2=String Col Box( "Mountain", {"K2", "Delphi", "Kilimanjaro", "Grand Teton"} ),
Number Col Box( "Elevation (meters)", {8611, 681, 5895, 4199} )
)
);
tb << Set Data Font Name( "Consolas" );
tb << set title font name("Broadway");
scb1 << Set Data Font Style( "Italic" );
- Xan: Header graph work, including dots + faint lines for when line chart becomes too dense.
- Dan S: Work on session files to better support platforms that don't have a data table. Changing JRP file syntax and open process to ensure that the file spec is correctly attached to the opened window. Reviewed and refactored a lot of code to use newReport() instead of newBoxHead() for creating reports - the latter results in reports that cannot be saved and is now deprecated for reports (other window classes are still fine). Fix for map shape boundaries in a Project (17.2). Continued work on focus issues.
- Evan: Added Path Variable listing as an example to the SI. Switched Fit Y by X launcher to use newLabel. Filed bug with Microsoft for broken multi-line code snippet copy/paste in Teams. Looking at current state of Sample Data Index and current Sample Data tables. Filed several bugs related to that work. Brainstorming improvements to formula evaluation.
DOE
- Caleb: Merged some last minute sample size explorer bugs into 17.1. Thanks to Jacob for catching them and to JMP approvers for their quick replies! Thankfully, they were easy fixes. Worked on some alternative diagnostic measures for MSA design. I’ll be reaching out to our resident JMP MSA experts for feedback. Finally, I attended the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium in Orlando, FL last week with Peng and Rajneesh. It was my first time at this conference and it was interesting to see the current trends and research going on in the Reliability Engineering sector. A big highlight of the week was getting to show off the Functional Data Explorer to a student!
- Peng: Addressed issues related to my recent refactoring work on DFactorList, mostly related to edit focus. Continued working on fatigue models in JMP18.
Host
- John Schroedl: Updated JMP Starter and various portable prompt dialogs to use the Label control (newLabel) instead of draw text (newText). This allows screen readers to discover and read the text to visually impaired users. Various fixes to label. Looking into text centering issue with drawn text with help from Evan. Looked into crash on exit with telemetry.
- Paul: Looking at ways to improve performance of new map server’s tile rendering. Reading up and researching database administration for PostgreSQL database and reading up on PostGIS, the geo-spatial extensions to PostgreSQL.
HTML5
- John Powell: Participated in a call to help a JMP Live customer with several issues and followed up by email with additional help. Answered a JMP User Community question about file size when linked subsets are used. Reviewed JMP 17.1 release notes. Participated in Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Planning meetings. Recorded some load time performance results for Line graphs with many overlays. Moved some local data filter logic from JavaScript to C++ and observed some performance improvement. (JMPHTML-1961) Fixed an issue with marker row state colors ignored when rendered on a black background (JMPHTML-1910). Triaged a crash when publishing to file (JMPHTML-1983). Reviewed some JMP Clinical feature requests with Dieter. Completed two new security courses.
- Praveena: Analyzed benchmark testing reports for bottlenecks and logged JIRA defects. Worked with Bryan Fricke on UI changes for Outline box for Interactive HTML Reports. Started working on Prevent large table truncation from S1023934: Large table hangs browser (JMPHTML-1516) and S1582803: Allow loading more content of large tables on JMP Live (JMPHTML-1040).
- Mike S: Did performance testing on Mac. Completed Windows setup to allow successful build and testing via Visual Studio. Finished new training courses. Participated in first sprint planning sessions.
- Mayowa: Working on improving performance of box plots in html (JMPHTML-1981).
- Paul Spychala: Working on Performance items and profiler axis code bugs.
JMP Live
- Eric: The JMP Live development team is looking to hire a new developer with both C++ and JavaScript experience. If you know anyone who might qualify, you can have them apply through this referral link so that you will qualify for a referral bonus. If you have any questions about the position, let me know.
- Aurora: 18.0: Lots of planning and design proposals (sorting posts, deleting users, error handling during publish, data UX during publish). Started server-side implementation of post sorting. Completed removal of the "Featured" feature. Miscellaneous: Took security training, re-took interviewing training.
Statistics
- Ryan P: Worked on defects for dynamic time warping, pushing a fix to maintain validation column details when performing DTW (JMP-15150).
- John Sall: Working on Design Space Profiler to allow use to narrow the factor space (JMP-15151).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Updated Scripting Index entries for CUSUM, EWMA and Generalized Regresssion; reviewed SI updates for various platforms that Colleen is working on.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Triaged Jira tickets for Easy DOE crashes in JMP 17.0/17.1 with Jacob. Confirmed Easy DOE fixes with Jacob. Considering with Nicole the feasibility of associating some usability tests with EA releases. Started defining new design evaluation feature for guided mode in Easy DOE with Ryan L. Began work on new area in JMP Community for technical and research material with Jeff, Ryan G., Ryan C., Brad, and Caleb. Submitted abstract about software usability testing to 2023 HCI International conference. Completed “SIRT” and “Protecting Your Privacy” training courses. Answered questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing final Sample Size Explorer fixes for 17.1. Testing the DOE factor list. Cleaning unit tests and writing a test for the Sample Size Explorers.
- Tonya: Testing short run control charts. Jira ticket triage. Working on beta scripts/salesforce in preparation for the next beta cycle
Product Management
- Bryan F: Updates for JMP 18 splash screens, ideation and feedback sessions (JMP Live and UX Workstream), columns viewer review, pop-up help design review, accessibility compliance response, and Icon design exploration for Multivariate Embedding.
Technical Support
- Duane: TS has been prioritizing updates/enhancements to our Service Cloud implementation with expectations that we will get resources to provide focused assistance in the near future. Many features and tweaks have been identified, so hopefully we will become even more efficient. Here are the TS JMP Live reports, a report showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days, and the usual plot is below.
Development Operations
- Jim: Thanks to Nick Ruva for migrating the Jenkins job to revert all the daily testing VMs over to AWS! Reported new ASSERT, CRASH and ASAN Jira tickets; verified fixed Jira issues. Perforce support.
- Melanie: Worked on migrating builtin strings from 17.1 into main. Fixed xstr files for the 17.1 track after a stringbot mishap over the weekend. Worked on some AWS migration plans.
- Myron: Got Stringbot running for 17.2 – runs will be starting this weekend. Worked with Qiana on fixing/creating/updating help builds related to 17.1 and 18.0. Updated telemetry processing backend jobs.
Documentation
- Susan C: Working on plans for our Jira doc bugs in 18. Troubleshooting issues in localized help. Sent 17.1 release notes for review, thanks to all who have replied!
- ChrisB: With the help of several others, working on simplifying the PDF doc add-ins page (JMPWEB-213), correcting Google hits that return the English results in the Chinese help (JMPTOOL-334), and updating help to match some new JSL syntax (JMP-3993).
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Hui: With Steve’s help, setup AWS development environment for HTML5 interactive automation testing. Wrote some setting up docs in Confluence. Investigated customer reported crash issue and reported defects JMP-15386 and JMP-15390. Continue setting up test environments on AWS machine for automation testing. Removed JMP18 windows version and reinstalled JMP 18 Server version. Thanks to Bob for helping. Reported JMP Runner issues to David Barbour. Thanks to David for fixing them! Installed Open Frame and Tape Google Extension as HTML5 testing auto tools.
- Josh L: JMP Live Story Testing / Jira Verifications. JMP Live 18 install trouble shooting. Answering various JMP Live questions.
- Anna: Testing maps.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing team:
- Eric Wang: (1) Tested new feature publish/update standalone data. (2) Update JMP Live JSL unit tests since syntax of “Updata Data()” is changed. (3) Investigated JMP Pool “low memory” issue (WEBJMP-6546). (4) Jira stories/bugs verification. (5) Review the 17.1 release notes.
- Da Li: (1) Verified bugs for JMP Import, JMP Live Client-General/Data-Client, adding corresponding UT when necessary (2) 17.1 JMP Clinical report testing (3) Review the 17.1 release notes. (4) Completed security Training.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17.1&18.0 bugs regression testing, and added some bug regression tests to …/tests/DataTable/SQL/testQueryBuilderDefects.jsl based on the bugs FIX. (2) Asked help from Jim for reconfiguring the lab Windows machine’s Oracle configuration due to recent Oracle database migration from old wmc server to the new fedora21c server (JMPTOOL-697). (3) Investigation on the CRP bug of Snowflake crash issue (JMP-15215), discussion with Dahlia on the customer provided Snowflake server accessing issue. (4) Review the 17.1 release notes. (5) Started the JMPC Report Testing in Nicardipine, CDISC OncoWikiData and CDISC pilot v 3.1.2 with Findings report (JMPTESTBJ-1925).
- Kimi: (1) Prepared and organized JMPC 17.1 reports testing. (2) Doing the JMPC 17.1 reports testing. (3) Bug Verification. (4) Completed security Training. (5) Review the 17.1 release notes.
- Da Zhang: (1) Doing the JMPC 17.1 reports testing. (2) Bug Verification. (3) Completed security Training. (4) Review the 17.1 release notes.
- Nala: (1) Doing the JMPC 17.1 reports testing. (2) Bug Verification. (3) Review the 17.1 release notes. (4) Helped JMP China SE setup AWS machine for debugging an issue.
Note from Shannon
Did you know that heart disease is the number one killer for both men and women in the US? At the WIN session focused on this topic today, a speaker mentioned that men and women may experience different symptoms when a heart attack is imminent. This is such good information, I thought I’d share.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and despite the cold, try to get in some activity to help keep your heart healthy! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
