Welcome to the JMP Development Update for May 31, 2024!
This week, JMP development managers and product management agreed to delay JMP 19 EA1 Code Freeze to 6/14/24 to permit the implementation of changes to EA authorization and installers. With JMP source code changes complete, and changes to EA installers ongoing, testing teams will look forward to a round of early installer testing to verify all the changes soon. Once code is frozen and candidate installers are generated and signed off, installers will be made available to EA program members in MyJMP. The installer validation process for an early EA typically takes about two weeks.
For the JMP 19 EA program, we’ll see a significant change: the program will be based on the user’s JMP license rather than determined by membership in the EA campaign in SalesForce. Essentially, any user with a JMP, JMP Pro, or JMP Clinical license will be able to install and authorize the appropriate EA version (JMP, JMP Pro, or JMP Clinical) - a formal invitation to join the EA program will no longer be required to permit authorization. Behind the scenes, JMP 19 EAs will now use the same Salesforce code path that is used when authorizing production versions. This will help us test production authorization more thoroughly earlier in the JMP 19 cycle. More specifics will be coming soon, but please let Mia Stephens know if you have any questions.
We are also moving quickly towards the beginning of JMP 18.1 Approval Mode on 6/4/24. As a reminder, you will still need a code review for any fixes that need approval for 18.1. If you have a critical fix that must be included in 18.1, please send a request to the JMP Approvers email list with the name of your reviewer and information on the proposed change, including a short description of the issue with Jira link and Swarm link (if applicable). Please be sure to comment on any expected impact of the change for testing. Thank you
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 Approval Mode Begins – 6/4/24
- JMP 19 EA1 Code Freeze – 6/14/24
- JMP 18.1 Code Freeze – 6/28/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Core
- Xan: Adding smoothing and overlap options for Grid jitter: features from Wilkinson’s seminal Dot Plot paper.
- Ernest: Pushed Column Tagging support last week (Confluence page here). Would love to hear use cases from SEs or others that might direct development.
- Dave B: Improved load time of Wafer Maps (JMPHTML-13752). Responded to discussion in the JMP User Community about using Interactive HTML in iFrames. Investigated the possibility of widening the local data filter to display very wide filter categories (JMPPRODMGMT-1420).
- Dan S: Integrated fixes to 18.1 for Mac Panel Box visual artifacts, Group Platform data filters, Tab Page focus, and Text Focus cancel bugs. 19.0 updates for Property Panel object tree to preserve open/close state, sizing of ListBox when scrollbar is added/removed, and Group Platform column switchers to disallow switching using the By column.
- Evan: Analyzed telemetry data concerning Excel import and use. Integrating fixes back to v18.1. Working on a prototype to simplify copy/paste for columns.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Bug fixing and improvements to the converted sample size explorers. I also created a feature page for these and some improvements I made for the OC curves.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will Morgan: Working on getting my AWS S3 Client Module built into a Python package to be integrated into JMP's python environment. This python package will hopefully be used with a JMP addin for the AWS S3 data connector. Going forward, I will be looking into the development required for creating a JMP addin and figuring out how the addin will interface with my AWS python package.
- John Schroedl: The Home Window on Windows has been given a bit of a visual refresh as part of my changes to remove our usage of the Telerik docking library (JMP-20282). Related to reducing our Telerik dependence, I will be replacing their spin control with my own which will also have a more modern look. Spending time keeping up with the flurry of announcement from Microsoft related to Copilot (their AI offering) and Windows on ARM. CIS is investigating the purchase of a machine with the new Snapdragon X Elite CPU and I will be starting the work needed to create an ARM native build of JMP. (JMP-21513). Helped folks debug various issues such as memory leaks, file issues and build questions.
- Paul N: Working on Python support:
- JMP-20811 – where running scoring code in JMP 18 script editor does not find jmp_score.py. Tested on macOS JMP 19. Will finish testing and get into 18.1 and 19.
- JMP-18386 – relocate Python dlls in Windows install. This also fixes case of _socket module not found when installing Python packages. Pushed to 19.0 and 18.1.
- Michael H: Changes to Mac build system to make our custom Build Phase scripts more maintainable, and also provide the information Xcode needs so it can determine when those scripts need to be run.
- Kristen: This week’s development was focused on implementing an OIDC authentication flow using myJMP within the JMP Marketplace test environment - JMPMRKT-94
Interactive HTML
- Praveena: Control Chart Triaging -
- Support for shapes based on triage status and identify row state change and disabled the Triage menu.
- Worked on updating the IDF document for Control Chart Warnings.
- Pie Chart: Spent some time with intern Sam Blashill for Pie Segment work.
- John Powell: Improved load time of Wafer Maps (JMPHTML-13752). Responded to discussion in the JMP User Community about using Interactive HTML in iFrames. Investigated the possibility of widening the local data filter to display very wide filter categories (JMPPRODMGMT-1420).
- Paul Spychala: Submitted the initial WebGL rendering commit for HTML5 [JMPHTML-13795] to switch rendering pipelines to WebGL when more performance is needed.
- Mike Stickles: Working on moving fill colors for bar segments into the XML Info section to improve performance (JMPHTML-2018); approximately 70% done.
- Sam Blashill: Learning a ton about the JMP codebase and have started getting my hands dirty with developing support for interactive pie charts in JMP Live.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 19.0: Control chart warning improvements (Clay Barker was kind enough to meet with us to talk through patentability, also I'm generating a summary of triage progress / urgency per report)
- Aaron: Finishing up support for using Python scripts for data updates on JMP Live. Working on Control Chart publishing issues.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Continued the work on MIIV-2SLS in SEM including merging all the covariance matrices of estimates across equations into one large matrix for presentation in the report, added estimates into the path diagram (for intercepts/regressions/loadings only), added a scripting index example, investigating a bug for intercepts when using the estimator just for starting values, and cleaned all the code to get it ready to push to main (hopefully early next week!). Came up with 3 examples for the academic team so one-page guides can be created for SEM.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed Scripting Index and documentation updates for Colleen; prepared for Hamid starting full-time next week; participated in a managers’ focus group session with JMP HR.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Debugged the intermittent timing out on one machine by an Easy DOE unit test script with Jacob. Resolved it by splitting tests (>2200) into two test sets. Developing a prototype of a Bayesian Optimization platform with Chris. Refactoring the script to accommodate new features. Working on a concept for user information about the emphasis of a new run on exploration or exploitation. Answered questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing Categorical. Starting tests for new FDR extension (JMP-2012) and updating unit tests to account for recent changes. Investigating potential performance issues. Investigating a crash in a BLAS routine, found by Chris Gotwalt. Working on a unit test to reproduce the crash.
- Tonya: Testing short run control charts. Presented on responding to beta feedback to the testing groups. Bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Reetika Sarkar: Attended the Pizza lunch at Cary earlier this week and enjoyed it. I have been working on the STIPS and JSL training this week.
- Rebecca: Fixing final bugs for JMP Clinical 18.1. Putting together slides for a joint workshop with the FDA that will occur at the DIA conference on June 18th.
- Richard: Prototyping a recurrence report to summarize adverse events within a clinical trial and continued writing on AE manuscript.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan: Continued to work with Dan Schikore, David Barbour, and Evan McCorkle on stylistic changes that can be invoked on demand. Worked with Sarah Sylvestre and Evan McCorkle on report detailing data table findings from user and SE interviews as well as telemetry.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy: With the shorter week, case volume has been a little less but still quite busy! Training for both Dawn and Joe is going well. Engagement is preparing for upcoming changes to the Store as JMP Pro and Clinical are scheduled to be available soon.
- As normal, here are the TS JMP Live reports and the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, total:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Shannon L: Reviewed with Product Mgmt and finalized prototype for tracking Jira issues by EA release (more info coming); assisted with Crash reporting; began working with Procurement for Atlassian renewals for July; working with Atlassian on account management count discrepancies; kicked off weekly focused AWS migration dev meetings, one for StringBot and another for Builds.
- Melanie: Help Processes: Help Key jobs are now updated and running for 18.1 and 19.0 help; some general improvements made to the scripts. DevOps Processes: General investigation, testing, troubleshooting for Unit Test streams; updated Mac Crash Symbolize machine; participated in build migration and EA planning meetings. Stringbot Migration: Met with Shannon C, Shannon L, and Myron for the first sprint meeting; finalized acceptance criteria for open stories for this sprint; started test planning.
- Myron: Started setting up Stringbot on AWS (JMPTOOL-1181, JMPTOOL-870). Worked on sample data process (JMPTOOL-1050). Addressed type error problems in Windows crash symbolize (JMPTOOL-1221).
- Jim: Build machine script updates. Enabled builds of JMP 18.0.2 for mac and Win; ditto for unit tests. Preparing for JMP 19 beta release.
Localization
- Allison: Finalized and validated 18.1 JMP Live translations and notified QA for testing; resolved the JA translation issue found by QA. Communicated with BRD about schedule for localized 18.0 JMP Documentation DTP tasks. Responded to queries related to Portable UI and JMP Documentation localization. Sent out 18.1 Sample Data to translation teams for localization.
- Krzysztof: Processing (validating and pushing) localization project returns for 18.1 UI: PortableUI, Builtins, SampleData, JMP Live. Processing Book project returns. Researching and documenting localization study for JMP Clinical. Working on migrating localization tools to our new external facing machine.
- Trish: Prepped agenda for doc/loc monthly meeting. Evaluated localizing 18.1 documentation – process and timing considerations. Reconfigured schedules as a result of dev code freeze moving out two week. Gathering information for translation teams to evaluate translation of some Sample Size Explorer strings.
- Sandy: Worked on file comparison validation with labels to run after populate job. Finished testing jira interface apis.
- Sohail: Bug fixes and new feature enhancements to translation search interface.
Documentation
- Devon: JMP-21601: Suggestions for updates to the User Guide from Kyoko Takenaka, JMP-21592: Removed a reference about JMP hosting JMP Live instances, adding screenshot scripts for Platform Presets images and updating a few of them for 18.1, working on issues with lists and images in the conversion of Discovering JMP to XML.
- Khawar: UG edits (JMP-21471: Continuing with the minor edits. Sample index (JMPDOC-2184
Started going through the list and taking notes. Manual steps from screenshots (JMPDOC-26 Fixed the scripts for all UG folders.
- Qiana: Finished going through the UG Jiras for 18.1. Closed JMPDOC-26. Went through the JMP 18.1 Features page. JMP 18.1 project planning and coordination.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Adnane El Hachami: Engaged in some more JMP and JSL training. Finished working on my data visualization project and an initial version of the URL references collection project, which aims to facilitate and automate checking if URLs are still accessible and valid in sample data tables. I have also started working a little bit on my third project which aims to generalize some preset tests to more languages other than English. Another goal for this project is to make the tests more efficient; that way, they can become baseline tests. I have started learning about this and reading the code this afternoon.
- Mandy: Worked on grouping columns and scripts for the change Ernest made – found some JSL issues with ungroup – still in progress; discovered “forced values” as a column property (JMP-6518) and now there is a Feature page and I will add it to the EA 1 video I do for Data table. Column tagging is another one of those I am working on at 19, so there will be 4 things highlighted in the video. Working on a journal so I can click and show how to access each one and keep it to 5-6 minutes. Also worked on a data filter fix and an associated crash that will go into 18.1 as well.
- Audrey: Met with Legal to talk about a website for third party disclosures, a little intern planning, a little Atlassian Admin stuff, investigated unit test failures, removed Matlab and R tests from the JMP 19 framework; those tests may need to be rewritten using our Python integration.
- Mike M: A Sikuli test caught a regression for CCB By groups. Enhanced a few Sikuli tests to cover more interactive scenarios. Keeping up with image test diffs, Baseline failures and testing for a few verifications.
- Lisa: Worked on tweaking a failing unit test that both Mandy and Audrey reviewed. Also entered a bug where the preview in axis settings was not updating properly.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh: Answering JMP Live server deployment questions. Supporting team members when needed. Mapping out the next areas of Live and HTML that I would like to see automated. Created new SSL certificates for use with JMP Live and Keycloak for servers located in na.sas.com and dev.jmp.com.
- Anna: Marker selection issues in HTML5. Beginning to check Parker's updates to improve Maps on desktop. Testing issues w/Group platform and Column Switcher, Dan has addressed and fixed the issue by restricting columns available to populate CS. Marketplace Capability Explorer add-in issue with Dark mode on Mac, reported DAD 17 issues in JMP 17 on Windows.
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Web Test Team Beijing / Cary Jira Status
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Testing
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5
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Test Ready
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43
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Created Last 7 Days
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15
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Closed Last 7 Days
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33
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System/Host Testing-Beijing
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Dan Valente who shared this interesting BBC article on the erratic answers provided by Google’s new AI overview search – a tool that you definitely do not want to use to get your recipes for weekend meals just yet…
Also, thanks to Josh LoPresti for sharing this item! Glad I do not have any attachments to share with the update this week… :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: but I’ll think of this the next time I do!
Hope you all have a great weekend!
