Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 28, 2023!
JMP 17.2 installer verification efforts are ongoing. Thanks very much to testers in Cary and Beijing who are vetting all the various flavors of our product installers! JMP 17.2 will be the final release of JMP to go through the SAS release engineering process. Updaters will be made available on support.sas.com in advance of full installers being released by SAS.
We passed our JMP 18 Feature Freeze milestone last Friday. High priority projects that must ship with JMP 18 and are still under active development should be detailed on the JMP 18 Late Features page in Confluence.
You can still update individual JMP 18 feature pages in Confluence to describe key updates made since EA4. In about two weeks, we will cut JMP 18 EA5 and these feature pages will help us send customers in the right direction to test new items.
I appreciate the triage work on epic and story items in Jira this week! Please take one of the following steps to deal with remaining items marked with Planned Version = 18.0:
- Mark items still in progress with Developing status and add a section to the Late Features page using the template table.
- If an item is not a remaining 18.0 priority but is a definite priority for 19.0, replace 18.0 with 19.0 in Planned Version.
- If an item is not currently a clear priority for any release, but should be done at some point, please demote it to a feature request and remove any values from the Planned Version field. (When a feature request is prioritized and converted to a story, the Planned Version can be assigned at that time.)
- If an item is unlikely to be a priority at any point, please set it to Test-Ready with a comment to resolve it with a Won’t Fix status.
Thanks for all the work on JMP portable UI strings this week in preparation for our first JMP 18 string handoff! Special appreciation to Melanie, Krzysztof and Trish for spearheading daily test runs that helped us better track progress as developers and writers updated strings this week.
Thanks very much to our summer interns who presented at the dev meetings this week, and to everyone who joined to support them! We had round 1 on Tuesday and round 2 on Thursday. If you couldn’t join live, don’t worry – you can watch the recordings at the links above. We very much appreciate all the work our interns have devoted to a range of projects spanning many JMP departments. You can find a list of all the summer intern presentation topics here in Confluence. If you’re in Cary next Wednesday or Thursday, you can stop by to see Intern Expo presentations in the Education Center (see schedule linked here on Inside SAS).
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s Beta/Crash tracks with crashes selected!
Beta/Crash tracks for the week of 7/28/23 | JMP Live (sas.com)
And last but not least, thanks very much to Audrey Shull for sharing this Jira Tip of the Week!
Don’t forget – most of our development projects are now set up to automatically assign the Tester as the Assignee when you change the status to Test-Ready. It’s one less field to change!
General Announcements
- 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 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
- Hamid: Finalizing edits and revisions made in the Profiler, Model Comparison, and Profiler chapters. Boston Housing has been deleted from these chapters and now they include new data tables. Attended informative daily “A Tour of the JMP Codebase” meetings and the first 2 rounds of intern talks. I am amazed by the talent and knowledge of other interns. Presented at SAS Visual Analytics User Guide’s 2023 Meeting: Highlights from the 2023 Intern Data Story Challenge as one of the teams invited to present their work for a larger audience at SAS. Final touches before adding “Secondary Students” data table to the JMP data library. This new data table is now available in the Sample Data folder. I am still in communication with the dataset creator to get more description about some variables and enable our users make a better sense of the context. Working on Mediation Example and JMP presentation for next week.
- Sohail Lokwandhala: Debugged, trained, and finetuned Japanese and French OpenNMT custom models using JMP training data combined with external datasets. Also worked on my JMP presentation for next week.
- Trevor Rathje: Completed my portion of the trial leads project that I worked with Andy Zhou on! I also presented my portion of my final project with my fellow interns.
- Michael Lee: This week me and a few other JMP interns wrapped up and presented our project. I also finalized work on a whitespace project I’m working on for some of JMP’s accounts and sent some cold call emails to some lost JMP opportunities.
DOE
- Caleb: Worked on improving the design optimization in CSALT as well as the default planning values and collaborated with Brad to polish our paper for resubmission and with Ryan and Joseph on our paper submission to RAMS.
- Peng: This is string work week for me. Starting with nearly 700 strings at the beginning of the week, down to 20 now.
Host
- Paul Nelson: Lots of work finishing up Python support before last Friday’s feature freeze, this week making sure my strings are extracted and working on documenting Python features in the ‘import jmp’ package. In addition to bug fixing some of the behavior and updating functions in the package to be consistent with Python naming conventions.
- John Schroedl: Changed default margins on underline buttons (hyperlink-style) for better flow with surrounding text. Further discussion and investigation of encoding limitations importing Chinese-encoded SAS datasets. Working on changes to telemetry opt-in prompt based on Legal guidance. Icon work. Code Tour prep and presentation.
- Michael H: Reported the Mac Sonoma flipped sticky layer bug to Apple, with a stand-alone test program that I wrote.
Interactive HTML
- Paul Spychala: Working on Dendrogram Bug Fixes. Adding support for OpDiGamma in HTML/JMPLive. Adding support for full CI formula support in the standalone profiler. Additional Axis tweaks in HTML/JMPLive to calculate when to wrap and truncate text. Support Transform Columns for Least Squares Platform in HTML/JMPLive.
- Mike Stickles: Continued work on JMPHTML-2236 (Support pattern fills); completed subtask JMPHTML-2246 (Support pattern fills in the Legend), and am working on JMPHTML-2248 (Support pattern fills in bars), with side-by-side and stacked bars working and bullet bars partially completed.
- John Powell: Support pattern fills for box plots (JMPHTML-2260, JMPHTML-2261). Support for multiple local data filters with different data tables(JMPHTML-2211). Planning for end of Sprint 18-6. Attended JMP C++ code tours.
- Michael Senoyuit: Finished JMPHTML-2231: Support FillSelectionMode Patterned in Shape Segment and started working on JMPHTML-2238: Adding bar colors support for PlotColBox in the HTML5 output.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Continuing work on folder level access (bug fixing, control chart warnings, notifications about granting of access). Removing the "Discoverable" space feature.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Created new scripts for a very interesting data table that Hamid got and prepared for JMP’s sample data folder (Secondary Students.jmp). Explored the new Sparce PCA algorithms that Clay wrote and John added to the PCA platform. Fixed remaining issues with distinguishing residual edges in SEM. Added an option in SEM to fit and compare cross-lagged panel models. Continued working on bootstrap for SEM.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed stat-related UI strings for consistency prior to first handoff to localization in 18.0; reviewed some updates made by Hamid and Karen; fixed some formatting issues in the help that were found during the EA4 online help review process.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Attended HCI International conference (virtually). Our poster we presented at the conference ‘Assessing the Usability of Statistical Software Using Designed Experiments’ summarizes our usability study for the new factor list in JMP 18 (joint work with Mark Bailey, Ryan Lekivetz, and Joseph Morgan). Added new tests for MSA Design for designs with nested factors. Verified DOE Jira tickets for JMP 18. Began writing a usability study for Load Design (Easy DOE feature) to include with EA5.
- Mark: Attended some codebase tours. Completed poster for JMP Discovery Summit with Jacob before recording next month. Attended kick-off meeting for JMP DEI Action Team. Close Jira tickets for Easy DOE. Developing unit test script for Data Entry tab in Easy DOE. Monitored questions about our poster at HCI International conference this week with Jacob.
- Tonya: Testing distribution report order and working on bug verification.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Attended a class from NN/g regarding the Product and UX roles, responsibilities, and partnerships. Created video highlights from a recent usability test and created associated Confluence page for reporting usability findings. More JMP 19 planning. Delivered more dark mode icons.
Technical Support
- Duane: Along with the standard ‘Cases by Week’ plot, I have included a second graph showing the case topics for our Engagement queue. It represents cases created from June 8 through July 27. Here are the usual TS JMP Live reports where filtering by Queue is now available. Also, here is the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
Development Operations
- Bob: Thorough review of final 17.2 installers in preparation for review by others. We have 21 installers ready for QA to certify and then release. This will be the final use of the SAS release engineering processes. Created final installer validation files for JMP/JMPPro Windows installer check. Kicked back the Clinical validation to Drew for minor tweak and to Tom for PDF edits.
- Jim: Built final installer candidates for JMP 17.2 on mac OS and WinOS. Performed mac operating system updates on multiple unit test machines
Set up for new Macs in lab (JMPTOOL-864).
Documentation
- Devon: Working on a bug in our production scripts that doesn’t update the JMP version number in the documents, working on the documentation add-in, drafting the Platform Templates chapter.
- Qiana: Worked on sample data tables. Worked on the documentation add-in for JMP 18. Worked on the Working Smarter videos. Project planning and coordination.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on 17.2 installer testing which went smoothly for me, seeing some of the same issues Bejing saw. Testing new JIRA fixes, and added a few test case in the JSL framework where needed. Adding a few Jiras for Action recorder that came in as workflow recording issues – hoping some of those can be addressed in 18.0 so they will record in the Workflow later in 18. Chased down a New table issue, due to GZcompression test kicking it out as having a different script, but narrowed it down now to just saving the table on Mac (Reactor Augment Data.jmp) that Ernest will debug so we can determine what to do. Working on gathering ideas for my Discovery poster.
- Mike M: Installer testing for 17.2, so far so good! Worked with JMP Live team to remove en-GB as a valid language choice. Also pushed again to get zh-cn correctly specified for 18.0. Opened minor Jira for Apply Formula scripting index doc. Attended meeting with docs team to brainstorm JMP Documentation Add-In verification going forward.
- Hunter: JMP 17.2 final installer testing for my assigned configurations, applied the Sonoma 14.0 Dev. Beta 4 Update on both Intel and M1 testing Macs in the lab to check the status of the inverted content in JMP-16991, and JIRA verification.
- Lisa: Worked on testing the new ability to make a grid of graphs with independent axes using the page role in GB and 17.2 installer testing.
- Audrey: 17.2 Installer Testing and review of issues coming in from everyone. Sample Index testing. Fixing a few test failures.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh L: JMP Desktop and JMP Live installer verification testing. Testing JMP Live 18.0 Active Directory Sync feature.
- Anna: Writing tests. Verifying fixes. Installer testing.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team: JMP 17.2 Installer Testing - JMPTESTBJ-2577 - in progress
- Eric (Nai) Wang: (1) Testing new feature “Capture table metadata”. Found WEBJMP-7301 which blocked testing. Now it is fixed. I will continue this after JMP 17.2 installer done. (2) Working on JMP 17.2 Installer testing
- Da Li: (1) 17.2 Installer testing, 1 bug created (JMP-17687: Help>About JMP window is not displaying well under language German with OS WinSrv 2022) (2) Fix 18.0 UT DNC issue (JMPTEST-1001: DNCs in baseline tests due to Boston Housing.jmp removal). (3) IN-Progress: Feature testing WEBJMP-2813: Support static reports in downloaded JMP Projects. (4) Bug verification.
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP 17.2&18.0 bugs regression testing. (2) Investigation on the intermittent DNC issue when running unit tests of Teradata database on quasi, and provided feedback to DBA in DMOPS-8439. (3) JMP 17.2 regression testing completed (JMPTESTBJ-2263). (4) Investigation on the JMP 18.0 Mac unit tests DNC issue, and it turned out to be an JMP 18.0 Mac regression issue entered bug JMP-17649. (5) Investigation on the technical support issue of Case Number 00046810 and provided feedback. (6) JMP 17.2 Install testing started
- Kimi (Yu) Wang: (1) JMP 17.2 Installer testing. (2) JMP 18.0 NF – Python – In progress: JMP-17599: Improve error reporting: log, stderr and stdout and JMP-17600: Syntax highlighting with Scintilla for JMP editor. Looking into the info of E-mail from Paul and updates for EA5 in JMP 18 Python Integration. (3) Debug the Jenkins failure - Done (JMPTESTBJ-1764: Bug: Connection to xxx closed by remote host, Update info on Trouble Shooting for Jenkins Failures in Beijing Framework).
- Da Zhang: (1) Win Automation failures investigation. (2) JMP 17.2 installer validation. (3) Bug verification.
- Nala: (1) JMP 17.2 installer validation. (2) Testing WEBJMP-7188: Send replace script to workflow builder on successful publish. (3) Bug verification.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Updated image testing to do a better job ignoring tooltips and to re-run tests if the display resolution of the VM changes, working on a request to add context information to tab pages (similar to context information on outline boxes), fixed a placement bug with minimized annotations, and added set message support to ComboColDisplay.
- Dan S: Platform templates - enabled for more multi-model platforms (SVM, LCA, KMeansCluster, XGBoost), working on some multiple-Y platforms. Working on bug reported in data filter, where incorrect rows can be shown.
- Evan: Summarizing and reporting Platform Templates usability study. Generating feedback for new Python integration. Adding removal message when opening Boston Housing via JSL. Fixed over-telemetry of open image files.
- Ernest: Columns Manager: ability to configure stats from table, adjustments to property editing, write to DataTable undo stack. Jira triage.
- Xan: Code tours; threaded eval for profiler overlaid interaction curves.
Note from Shannon
Big congratulates go out to Brad Jones on his upcoming retirement effective at the end of the month. You can read a tribute article about Brad’s career and DOE innovations here on Inside JMP. Very best wishes to Brad for a productive and relaxing retirement!
