Dr. Carette's review of Methodology section

[samm82]

I've finished #143 except for one to-do item: describe methodology for identifying implicit information more "algorithmically", perhaps using a flowchart, to show that it is "based on the text of the sources". I figured that @smiths's review of the terminology section (#185) would better evaluate if this is done sufficiently, but feel free to keep an eye out for it!

Sam-Ch3-Methodology-v2.pdf

[JacquesCarette]

Ok, added to my 'ToDo'. Do let me know if this becomes a blocker.

[JacquesCarette]

The main goal of our research is to produce a complete, correct taxonomy of software testing terminology.

But this is no longer the goal of this thesis, right? I would be more careful about the "big" goals and those achieved here. This starts the chapter on the wrong foot, even though you 'correct' things by the end of the first paragraph.

It will be easier to describe the methodology used in your thesis if you restrict yourself to what the thesis does.

Your text should also be clearer that you are describing your methodology. Yes, the chapter title says 'Methodology', but the text does not identify for what sufficiently directly. The steps are indeed described (the enumeration on p.24-25), but the reader doesn't quite get what this is for.

The chapter itself seems quite reasonable as far as describing the details of the process that you have followed.

I'm looking for something along the lines of "We need to find test approaches in the current literature. The definition of a test approach (Section 2.1) contains a name, categories, definitions and some relations such as synonym, parents and other items As we've established, this will also result in us finding flaws. We need to have a process for doing this -- here we describe our methodology." Or something like that.

And then you should separate the actual data collected from the methodological steps. Your enumerated list conflates those two.

Then the body of this chapter can further expand on the methodological aspects, and leave the data aspect to later chapters.

[JacquesCarette]

(I'm closing, as I've done my part of this -- though I am course expecting to do a fuller review soon, once the lead-up and chapter have been changed to really focus on the methodological aspects.)

[samm82]

I'll be addressing this feedback in #193 as my next to-do list item (as discussed in #192). Then I'll send it back for the "fuller review". 😁