Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 14, 2023!
Congratulations go out to the DOE team on two patents that were issued this week! The first one is entitled Experiment Design Variants Evaluation Table GUI (U.S. Patent No. 11,699,000). The second is entitled Graphical User Interface for Power and Uncertainty Interval Constructions on 2023-07-11 (U.S. Patent No. 11,699,006). You can find a copy of both patents here: Issued Patents.
With JMP 17.2 source code changes now wrapped up, we are looking forward to the creation of final installer candidates for all products on 7/24/23. This will be the last JMP release to go through the SAS release engineering process. We anticipate signing off on 17.2 by 8/23 and releasing updaters around that time. Full installers will be released by SAS after 9/19/23. For a full list of JMP 17.2 dates, please see this page in Confluence.
We will reach our JMP 18 Feature Freeze milestone at the end of the day next Friday (7/21/23). It’s important to keep the late features list to a minimum so that we have enough time to test, document, translate and fix bugs in existing JMP 18 features. When considering features or enhancement requests after the Feature Freeze deadline, please confirm with your manager and product management that the feature is absolutely necessary to ship in this release. If you all agree that the feature is required, please add it to the Late Features page and consult with testers, writers, and the localization team to determine whether the change you’re considering impacts downstream work. And as always, please continue to keep your individual feature pages up to date in Confluence as we move towards EA5, planned for 8/11/23.
Thanks very much to Audrey Shull for hosting the JMP Dev meeting on Thursday! David White presented on the revised Sample Index and compact columns. If you missed the meeting, you can see a recording here. The new Sample Index looks great and I can see that the meeting chat was particularly active this week. Thanks for all your feedback – Mia has captured ideas for future releases on this page in Confluence.
Thanks as always to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash report with crashes selected!
Weekly beta report from 7/14/23 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
- Meet the Interns items on Inside JMP this week feature Bryce Scott, Rebecca Chang, and Irene Ji.
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18 Feature Freeze – 7/21/23
- JMP 18 EA5 and JMP Clinical EA3 – 8/11/23
- JMP 18 EA6 and JMP Clinical EA4 – 10/3/23
- JMP 18 EA7 and JMP Clinical EA5 – 12/8/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Interns
- Sokhail Lokhandwala: Finished, submitted, and presented my Intern Expo poster board to my team during our weekly scrum meeting. Began inference using a pretrained OpenNMT model to benchmark against Google AutoML’s models.
- Trevor Rathje: Finished up a report that analyzed trends and data for all of the chemical companies that use JMP. Completed the JSL learning course in preparation for starting a JSL project with Andy Zhou.
- Emily Cohen: Working on my Intern Expo poster board, my JMP presentation powerpoint, and editing the Graph Builder chapter of Essential Graphing.
- Anusha Bellapu: Worked on my Intern expo poster this week. I continued my work on unit testing for JMP Clinical 17.2.
Life Sciences Updates
- Wenjun: Visited with the JMP Japan life sciences teams to give an overview of new features in JMP Clinical 17 last Friday morning. Then Wenjun, Hideaki, Akihiro and Azusa (from left to right) visited Dr. Yuki Ando and her group in PMDA to get feedback about JMP Clinical 17 on Friday afternoon. Dr. Ando openly acknowledged that PMDA used JMP and JMP Clinical in CDISC Interchange annual conference in 2015.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Moderated 5 external usability tests for Platform Templates using an Amazon AppStream to deliver JMP. Created some designs for updating the Sample Index dialog and provided some design feedback for JMP Live. Initial conversations with Evan regarding a navigation drawer and side panel for JMP. Did some more planning for potential updates to the look-and-feel of JMP.
Development Operations
- Bob: Worked with InstallShield trying to resolve issue that P&G had. Still trying options. Cleaned up file storage areas. Working with Alex on automated cleanup scripts. Scanning of DLLs and other executables for signing issues. Final SOE work for 17.2 projects in SAS process. Removed JMPIconRefresh program from 17.2/18.0 installers. Continued with Beginning Python class.
- Myron: Testing JMPTOOL-877 – remove PII from telemetry data and JMPTOOL-505 – sample data processing. Testing and fixing JMPTOOL-861 – migrate help jobs to AWS. JiraBot owner updates.
- Melanie: Tested Jenkins jobs migrated to AWS. Prep work for helping to migrate JMP UI strings translated in 17.2 up to main.
Documentation
- Qiana: Worked on the Boston Housing sample data table deprecation project. Planning work on the Working Smarter in JMP project. Updated the “Learn about JMP” chapter to reflect the Help Menu Simplification project changes and distributed for review. Added information to the JMP 17.2 Release Notes to mention the planned SAS integration retirement. Handed off the Release Notes to L10N. Made review updates to the Learn about JMP chapter.
- Devon: Drafting the new Platform Templates chapter for the Using JMP book, JMP-11301: CRP:Document Sorting Method changes in JMP 15, JMP-17103: Add details on new MSA Column Property to the Column Property Doc section. Reviewing Susan’s Create the JMP Live/Public help page, STIPS training.
- ChrisB: Caught up on post-vacation email. Reviewed the "Working Smarter" videos and the new "Learn About JMP" chapter. For Myron, I compared the AWS-built 18.0 help with the non-AWS 18.0 help build. Replaced the 17.2 help and, with the help of Mike Shaddock, figured out a Push on Demand issue.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Nick H: Continuing work on creating some automated tests for templates. I have been focusing more this week on creating a Hamcrest Matcher for Templates and creating unit tests to ensure that all of the platform template examples are working as expected. The matcher compares 2 platform script expressions but replaces the column references with dummy variables so the scripts can be compared independent of data table. Testing the examples provides decent coverage of both platform messages and customizations. I am also continuing work on testing platforms for all platform messages across JMP using SI examples. There are still a lot of examples to clean up so this will be an ongoing project. A couple of bugs have already been discovered and filed from this early testing. Aside from templates, I created a simple UI for rebaselining JMP Search tests that should simplify that process, and also filed a bug to allow for minimized annotations to be edited.
- Mandy: Worked on JIRA’s for workflow builder icons and Dark Mode – they are now all correct for the Notes, Screenshot images, Breakpoints, etc. Met with developer about workflow builder UI testing for prompting in the Step settings/show messages. Worked on Column Compress and wrote preferences test for a few of those settings. Entered a few Jira tickets for column compression after Dave White’s demo. Spent time on TS tracks that came in for EA4. Tracked down a diff for *GZcompress02 test which has to do with a data table change and the script not matching on Mac only (Qiana/Karen C. have been notified). Starting to work on Workflow builder ideas for poster for Discovery – will be tossing ideas to a story board, hopefully next week.
- Anna: Continuing to search for Font family persistence issues using Help > Sample Index > Data Tables list > Checking table scripts. Some scripts do not show expected results when run via Sample Index preview table vs. real table. NOREP. Adding font family persistence scenarios to file for Mike S. Added tests for fill selection mode setting via Preferences and on FrameBox.
- Hunter: Responded to EA tracks and opened one new JIRA for an issue navigating in a data table, applied the Sonoma 14.0 Dev. Beta 3 Update on Intel and M1 testing Macs in the lab to check the status of the inverted content in JMP-16991, reported some Quick Start items, and testing Aaron’s JMP Runner build with a feature to bookmark URLs within a project.
- Lisa: Continued testing on overlay encoding feature in GB, verifying tickets regarding color spaces, and started testing the summarized labeled points feature.
- Audrey: Talking with Paul N, Nala and Kimi about Python testing, Jira admin stuff.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Eric (Nai) Wang: (1) JMP Live JSL test improvement: Separate common function "JMPLiveGraphQL:ChangeDataSettings()" to 3 functions since it requires too many parameters (JMPTESTBJ-2497). Add wait mechanism to “GetNotication” functions since sometimes the notification could be delayed (JMPTESTBJ-2498). Update tests that related to above changes. (2) “folder level permissions” testing. Currently working on new GraphQL interfaces testing and adding jest tests (WEBJMP-7033, WEBJMP-7034). (3) JMP Clinical 17.2 I18N testing Round 2. (4) Bug verification.
- Da Li: (1) Verify and close 9 bugs for components Import-Excel and Import-PI Server. (2) DONE: JMP Desktop 18.0 I18N testing round 2/7, 4 bugs created (JMPTESTBJ-2272) (3) Nightly run UT failure investigation and create 1 new bug (JMP-17397: Unexpected data table listed when doing excel import by Concatenating multiple Worksheets). (4) DONE: Feature testing, 1 bug created [WEBJMP-6187] Migrate system comments to post history table. (5) Verify and close 4 bugs for components Client-General and Comments-Server
- Kimi (Yu) Wang: (1) JMP 17.2 Regression Testing, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-2263 – Done. Debug the failures of Formula Depot python part, modify save excel method from self.dest.save() to self.dest.close(). (2) JMP 18.0 I18N Testing - Round2, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-2272 - Done. (3) Bug Verification. (4) Fix Baseline Failures of FD - Done. (5) Fix UT Failures per new fix for FD – In Progress. (6) JMP C 17.2 I18N Testing - Round2, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-2408 – Done. (7) Jenkins: Debug the root cause of JMP Live timeout, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-2499: BUG: Detected a crash in Unit Test 66 of 66, WebJMP/VariousReports/test_RegenAllSamples.jsl - TESTING. Created a confluence page Trouble Shooting for Jenkins Failures in Beijing Framework - China R&D JMP Testing Team. Update AWS access key – Q3, refer to JMPTESTBJ-2546: Optimization: Update AWS access key - 2023 Q3. Activate VS license – July, refer to JMPTESTBJ-2547: Optimization: license of VS2022 is expired - July.
- Da Zhang: (1) JMP Clinical 17.2 I18N testing Round 2. (2) Bug verification. (3) JMP 18.0 i18n testing round 2 - DONE. (4) Added new tests for Text Explorer
- Nala: (1) JMP Live: Tested WEBJMP-5390: Use dynamic breadcrumbs on report post. (2) JMPC 17.2 I18N testing R2. (3) Q2 Conversations. (4) Bug verification.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Added a callback to tablebox that gets called when the user sorts a tablebox, fixed a topseg re-run problem, fixed add-in loading so if the load script modifies the addin.jmpcust file the changes are applied immediately.
- Ernest: Platform Templates: first cut of packaging in an Add-In. Multi column editing: reading in and editing existing formula columns.
- Xan: Checked in Profiler features for overlaid interaction curves and data points. Added labeling option to Graph Builder Points element.
DOE
- Peng: Continued smoothing the wrinkles of the new factor list integrations with Easy DOE and RSM. Thanks to the DOE team for testing, inside out. Signal that the new Fatigue Model platform is testable. Technical details are documented in the first draft. Worked on a couple of fun and twisted community questions.
- Brad: Drove to Blacksburg VA with Ryan Lekivetz to work with Bobby Gramacy on scoping an approach to Bayesian Optimization adding to Augment design. Worked with JP Morgan of Virginia Tech on finding best orthogonal arrays for model discrimination
Host
- Paul N: Worked on Python Column object for data table class. Had to figure out how to create Python enumerations using the C-API and then add them to the Python Column Object’s type declaration. Needed the enumerations for column data type and modeling type. Figured out how to add [ ] support to the column class to access and set the row value by index. My column class isn’t yet connected to the DataTable’s column. At present, working out the mechanics of creating the C/C++ representation of the Python Object that users interact with from Python. Also, researched / helped David White with figuring out an issue with changing the Data Table version numbering, so that the warning table can be properly displayed.Looking at our first Snyk reports on the JMP Desktop source code and dependencies.
- Michael H: Rewriting the Load DLL() JSL command to not use the TK library.
Interactive HTML
- Praveena: Continued work on enabling menu options for Distribution platform for reports published to JMP Live. Completed support for Mosaic menu options in Nominal Distribution, completed adding support for multiple Boolean menu options in Continuous Distribution.
- Paul Spychala: Added Patterned FillSelectionMode support for more segments in JMPLive/HTML [ JMPHTML-2224, JMPHTML-2226, JMPHTML-2227, JMPHTML-2223, JMPHTML-2225, JMPHTML-2228, JMPHTML-2222]. Axis also wraps lines for more cases [JMPHTML-2190].
- Mike Stickles: Finished work on graph legend fonts in HTML export (including some refactoring and color work). Spent a fair bit of time on training as well.
- Michael Senoyuit: Finished setting up my dev environment. Took some HR, JMP, and JS trainings.
Statistics
- Elizabeth: Continued work on degrees of freedom formulas to use in saved confidence interval formula columns for mixed models. It’s working for fixed effect-only models and G-side variance component mixed models; working out the last bugs with complex R-side structures which are always the most problematic. Worked with tech support to answer a user question about SVM. Preparing for my portion of the upcoming code tour series.
- Laura C-S: Continued work on SEM bootstrap, did a simulation for the white paper on causal inference, attended a meeting with Dwight Thompson along with Jacob, Mark, and Joseph to discuss a patent application. Searched some resources for our intern Parker for chatGPT writing prompts, reviewed a (great) new sample data table that our intern Hamid has been assembling.
- John Sall: Fix Prediction Intervals in FitLS for REML (JMP-17486). Fix "Fit Response Screening" for Relationship matrix but no other random effects. (JMP-17547). Have PCA be able to call Clay's Penalized SVD for "Sparse PCA", an early draft. (JMP-8539) In Process Screening added the Latest Alarm Time if there is a time variable. (JMP-17564).
- Annie: Added a Set Sigma option to Control Chart Builder along with continuing work on bringing the Short Run Control Charts to maturity and fixing bugs.
Stat Documentation
- Hamid: Participated in the Data Story Challenge, and our team got third place for Powerful Analytic Insight. Worked on my SAS Intern Expo board. Finished revising all the chapters that included Boston Housing either directly or indirectly. New data tables are now used instead of the Boston Housing. Preparing a draft for the Mediation analysis which is going to be added to the SEM chapter. Attended Dev, Stat Writers, and a few intern meetings.
- Michael C: Started process of removing Boston Housing from examples in the Scripting Index and updating those examples to use other existing sample data tables instead; reviewed updates for Colleen and Hamid.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Completed initial unit test script for the Data Entry step in Easy DOE using a covering array with Jacob. Assisted Di, Jordan, and Byron with their presentation about control charts for JMP Discovery Summit. Assisted meeting with Dwight about IDF for usability study tool with Jacob, Laura C-S, and Joseph. Preparing video of highlights of presentation for HCI conference with Jacob. Answer questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Investigating potential performance issues, focusing on identifying issues exclusive to the ‘Windows Lite’ machine. Testing MSA Design, working on new tests for the design table when nested factors are used. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests. Preparing HCI conference presentation with Mark Bailey.
- Tonya: Testing the new set sigma option in CCB, the new Save spec Limits and Distribution to Column Properties without report command in distribution, and the new Save Distribution as Column Property command in Distribution Process Capability. Also working on bug verification.
Note from Shannon
