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One of the main tasks of the TSO WG on FY2020 is to perform testing of the steps made by the JWST Calibration Pipeline for TSO-like data. This tracking sheet contains all the information regarding pipeline testing by the members of the TSO WG. Nestor Espinoza and Sarah Kendrew will be populating this page heavily in the weeks of July 20 and 27, 2020, for NIRISS and MIRI TSO testing, respectively. Nikolay Nikolov and Tony Keyes will be populating at their own pace for NIRCam and NIRSpec, respectively.

General guidelines for Pipeline Testing

Please, test every step identified below. If for some reason you don't have time to test a step, let Nestor Espinoza and Sarah Kendrew know.
Use the comments in the tables to post brief comments about the status of that testing step (think of it as a quick overview for others to know what is going on). For extended commentary, or details on how you performed the testing, use the text below the tables.
If a bug is found, please report it in Jira as a "Bug" Jira ticket. Please copy the links to those tickets in the table below under the comments.
For algorithm improvements/enhancements, please file an "Improvement" Jira ticket. Please copy the links to those tickets in the table below under the comments.

In general, if bugs are found, the best would be to discuss them first in one of our meetings before going ahead and submitting them (unless this is high-priority, in which case we could schedule a special meeting for this). This is left at the discretion of each TSO WG member.

General comments

Before jumping to read the below table, some important comments to keep in mind while reading them:

NIRISS testing is being done using awesimsoss NIRISS/SOSS simulations of HAT-P-1. Care must be taken as this is the first end-to-end simulation of awesimsoss (which is under active development).
MIRI testing is being done using MIRISim simulations of MIRI/LRS.
NIRCam testing is being done using Mirage simulations.
NIRSpec testing is being done on CV3 data.

Stage 1: Detector Processing TSO testing

Pipeline step	NIRISS status	NIRISS comments	NIRCam status	NIRCam comments	MIRI status	MIRI comments	NIRSpec status
group_scale		The step is supossed to do nothing for NIRISS/SOSS (here, a group = 1 frame). Indeed, nothing changes when running this step, except for the length of the ASDF element in the HDU list object, which is normal.			N/A
dq_init		This step correctly initializes the data-quality flags, as it is supposed to do. However, still not clear what the PIXELDQ mask is reporting. GROUPDQ masks make sense with respect to the reference file bad pixel mask.
saturation		This step does what is expected to do: it captures saturated pixels and flags them in the GROUPDQ masks. The simulations used for this validation had saturated pixels and they were correctly identified (flagged) by the pipeline.
superbias					N/A
reset	N/A		N/A			This was tested on a TSO imaging file separately since this step does not currently run by default. The test passed with no issues.	N/A
linearity
rscd	N/A		N/A				N/A
dark_current
refpix
jump		Step produced no errors. Manually introduced jumps were detected.
ramp_fitting		*rateints files show spikes not seen with my own ramp fits, and do not report timestamps. This has been identified as an awesimsoss header bug.		produced rateints with 7.5 and independent linear fits; substantial difference in a subset of data.
gain_scale

Extended comments by instrument branch:

NIRISS:
- Regarding error on ramp_fitting step, Nestor Espinoza is looking into what headers have to be added to awesimsoss in order for the step to properly work. The problem has to do with the fact that the pipeline is not reading the time-stamps — and hence not calculating the rates correctly. After that's done, will run the step again and compare against his ramp fit (which was done using a simple OLS).
NIRCam
MIRI:
NIRSpec:

Stage 2: Spectroscopic processing TSO testing

Pipeline step	NIRISS status	NIRISS comments	NIRCam status	NIRCam comments	MIRI status	MIRI comments	NIRSpec status	NIRSpec comments
assign_wcs
extract_2d
flat_field
srctype
photom
extract_1d		This step currently extracts the whole subarray as a spectrum, which produced order overlap, which makes this step produce an unusable product for science. An algorithm is in development for this step. For details, see .

Extended comments by instrument branch:

NIRISS:
NIRCam
MIRI:
NIRSpec:

Stage 2: Image Processing TSO testing

Pipeline step	NIRISS status	NIRSpec status
assign_wcs	N/A	N/A
flat_field	N/A	N/A
photom	N/A	N/A

Extended comments by instrument branch:

NIRISS:
NIRCam
MIRI:
NIRSpec:

Stage 3: Time-Series Observations (TSO) Processing testing

Pipeline step	NIRISS status	NIRISS comments	NIRCam status	NIRCam comments	MIRI status	MIRI comments	NIRSpec status	NIRSpec comments
outlier_detection
tso_photometry
extract_1d
white_light

Extended comments by instrument branch:

NIRISS:
NIRCam
MIRI:
NIRSpec: