noorbuchi/senior-thesis-afluent-2022

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Hello! I'm Noor. مرحبا! أنا نور

I’m a student at Allegheny College majoring in Computer Science with minors in Political Science and Mathematics. Feel free to check out my website and reach out using LinkedIn.

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Feedback After Your Senior Thesis Defense

Hello @noorbuchi, as @mariakimheinert and I promised, here is some feedback about your senior thesis. We encourage you to make some small improvements to your document so that you can complete the highest quality document possible.

Our suggestions are as follows:

• When there are other potential ways to configure some aspect of AFLuent, please make sure that you mention those alternatives and then refer to them explicitly when you are writing about future work to further study the tool.
• Your thesis contains several different types of graphs. Please make sure that the description of each type of graph is provided inside of your thesis so as to ensure that the document is entirely self-contained. Overall, the goal is for you to explain the meaning of each graphical element, color, and symbol inside of the graph.
• Please carefully check your document for small mistakes in writing and formatting. For instance, you write "p value" when it is more appropriate to write "p-value".
• Please carefully check all of the references in your thesis as there are several small mistakes. For instance, you need to make sure that words like "Stack Overflow" and "Python" are capitalized correctly. You should also ensure that months of the year are correctly spelled out and capitalized and, overall, that all of the references have a consistent format.
• When your thesis reports on measure(s) of efficiency you should make it more clear as to what you measured for efficiency, how you conducted that type of measurement, and the limitations for that type of measurement. If part of your future work involves more experimentation to study efficiency then you should make that more clear in your future work section.
• Some of the ideas in your future work section seem inspired by prior work in the field of fault localization. As such, you should reference some of the papers that, for instance, have reported on human studies of fault localization techniques.
• Your future work also mentions a "larger sample" of projects. Your thesis should explicitly state the types of projects you suggest should be included in any follow-on experiments. We can talk about this during an office hours meeting as I have some ideas for new subjects.
• Finally, the thesis document itself should make a prominent reference to the GitHub repository that contains the source code and documentation for your Pytest plugin. I suggest that you make an organization on GitHub specifically for the project and then invite @mariakimheinert and I to be collaborators on the project and the organization. We can help you with small tweaks to the documentation before we release the final version of your tool and write a paper about it to the Journal of Open Source Software!

Overall, congratulations, you have done a very good job on your senior thesis research so far! 🚀

Feedback on Senior Thesis Chapters

Hello @noorbuchi!

Once you return for the Spring 2022 semester and we resume meeting during office hours and in CMPSC 610 you should schedule a meeting so that we can go over your senior thesis chapters from CMPSC 610. In the meantime, here is some brief feedback that will help you to see ways in which you can improve the material that you submitted as part of your grade in CMPSC 600.

• The thesis chapters were correctly released on GitHub.
• You did not write an abstract for the thesis which makes it hard to see the submitted chapters in their appropriate context.
• The first chapter of your thesis is too short; you should work with your thesis readers to identify and prepare new content.
• The second chapter of your thesis is also too short; again, you should work with your thesis readers to identify ideas for new content.
• Your chapters contained a lot of boilerplate content that should be updated or deleted from the thesis.
• The motivation for deciding to use your proposed approach is still not clear; more details are needed on this topic.
• Please make your own motivating example instead of using an existing example in Figure 1.6.
• At a later stage, the thesis chapters would benefit from a technical diagram that explains the overall tool architecture.
• Going forward, please make the project's experiment design and evaluation metrics very clear.

Okay, I look forward to seeing you again during the Spring 2022 semester! Please keep in touch if you have any questions about the senior thesis research experience in the Computer Science Department at Allegheny College.