Asking the Right Questions in the Right Way: Six Needed Changes in Questionnaire Evaluation and Testing Methods

Author(s):  
Don A. Dillman
Keyword(s):  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubarak Albarka Umar

<p><i>Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software program to ensure that it performs its intended purpose. Software testing verifies the safety, reliability, and correct working of software. The growing need for quality software makes software testing a crucial stage in Software Development Lifecycle. There are many methods of testing software, however, the choice of method to test a given software remains a major problem in software testing. Although, it is often impossible to find all errors in software, employing the right combination of methods will make software testing efficient and successful. Knowing these software testing methods is the key to making the right selection. This paper presents a comprehensive study of software testing methods. An explanation of Testing Categories was presented first, followed by Testing Levels (and their comparison), then Testing Techniques (and their comparison). For each Testing Levels and Testing Techniques, examples of some testing types and their pros and cons were given with a brief explanation of some of the important testing types. Furthermore, a clear and distinguishable explanation of two confused and contradictory terms (Verification and Validation) and how they relate to Software Quality was provided.</i></p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Ratna Ayu Sekarwati ◽  
Ahmad Sururi ◽  
Rakhmat Rakhmat ◽  
Miftahul Arifin ◽  
Arief Wibowo

The design of Chatbot aims to facilitate social activities in all areas to be considered. Chatbot is one type of machine that can communicate with humans using natural language. Communication happening via chat is a written conversation. Chatbot is a form of application implementation from Natural Language Processing (NLP) that belongs to one branch of artificial intelligence or Artificial Intelligent (AI). Social Media now provides a service that allows developers to process and integrate chatbot applications. This paper aims to review the papers that build chatbot applications in various social media using various testing methods. The contribution of this paper is to determine which method is able to measure the level of chatbot accuracy well. This review paper will choose the equation of the most widely used test methods and social media from various papers so that further research is expected to implement the right testing methods and use better social media in terms of user experience, features, and services. The review paper shows that the Black-box and System Usability Scale testing methods are most used in the review paper. This testing method is a type of method that performs testing of the flow and how the chatbot works to achieve functional validation throughly.


Author(s):  
Christian Heikel ◽  
Eberhard Ambos

For many years, molders have been trying to figure out the influence of diverse factors on the quality of die castings during molding. In 2010, the rapid computer tomograph became available for the first time. This system is derived from medical technology and offers new testing methods. The measures, which have been in progress for the past 5 years, were focused to point out the correlation between the major influences of pore expression in pressure die castings. These results are suggestive of the future technological and constructive work. Through continuous improvements in testing methods, the technology finally succeeded to work out major influences on pore expressions in pressure die castings. With these new findings, it is possible, and even proven by example, that through the right choice of process parameters strength-influencing pores can be reduced. In case of not preventing the formation of pores, they could be moved out of the areas, which are strength vulnerable. This is an appropriate concept to reduce the weight of components and therefore the implementation of lightweight constructions in the automotive industry.


2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. E4-E6
Author(s):  
Alan Hirsch ◽  
Alexander Roussos ◽  
Sally Freels

In patients with chemosensory complaints, a head-to-head comparison of unilateral olfaction threshold testing with the Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol Smell Threshold Test (PEA) and the OLFACT-RL Odor Threshold Test (OLFACT-RL) was undertaken. The charts of 23 consecutive patients presenting with chemosensory complaints seen at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation were reviewed and information extracted per Institutional Review Board guidelines. All patients had undergone olfactory testing with the PEA test and the OLFACT-RL test in accordance with their published administration manuals. Using Spearman correlation coefficients to measure the statistical correlation between tests, we found evidence of a correlation between PEA and OLFACT-RL values on the left side only, overall (r = 0.49, p = 0.0184); in those who had hyposmia and did not have anosmia (r = 0.42, p = 0.0668); in those who did not have burning mouth syndrome (r = 0.46, p = 0.0304); and in those who did not have dysosmia (r = 0.47, p = 0.0553). There is no evidence of a correlation on the right side. The correlation for the left nostril suggests that these tests may be interchangeable. However, lack of correlation with the right nostril requires further investigation.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubarak Albarka Umar

<p><i>Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software program to ensure that it performs its intended purpose. Software testing verifies the safety, reliability, and correct working of software. The growing need for quality software makes software testing a crucial stage in Software Development Lifecycle. There are many methods of testing software, however, the choice of method to test a given software remains a major problem in software testing. Although, it is often impossible to find all errors in software, employing the right combination of methods will make software testing efficient and successful. Knowing these software testing methods is the key to making the right selection. This paper presents a comprehensive study of software testing methods. An explanation of Testing Categories was presented first, followed by Testing Levels (and their comparison), then Testing Techniques (and their comparison). For each Testing Levels and Testing Techniques, examples of some testing types and their pros and cons were given with a brief explanation of some of the important testing types. Furthermore, a clear and distinguishable explanation of two confused and contradictory terms (Verification and Validation) and how they relate to Software Quality was provided.</i></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgi Georgiev ◽  

This textbook is based on many years of practice, research and teaching work of the author in the field of decorative ceramic glazes. It is an original intersection of theory and artistic approach. It is a kind of manual, fully adapted to the needs of ceramists and designers of ceramic products. The theory of vitreous coating and the practice of creating decorative glazes is brought together. Both the basic properties of glaze melt and the variety of raw materials used in modern practice are presented as well as useful guidelines for the right choice of material and the technological process. Аn Information about the regimes of thermal treatment is also provided. The testing methods used in glaze production technology are included as well. Thanks to its scientific and practical orientation, the textbook can be used as a comprehensive methodological guide in the process of obtaining new glazing coatings or modifying existing ones. It is аdressed to students who are trained in the specialties “Design of Porcelain and Glass” and “Ceramics” at the National Academy of Art, as well as for all who are interested in the technology of vitreous silicate coatings.


Author(s):  
Widiatry Widiatry ◽  
Agra Nugraha

A variety of new concepts and techniques in teaching has been widely developed to replacetraditional methods that rely solely on a one-way teaching method in the class. One of theteaching methods that are being developed in SMAN 1 Palangka Raya is currently the e-learning,where teachers can help in distributing their materials without having to be in class by using theinternet. In e-learning this implement search algorithms namely the Boyer-Moore algorithmwhich is expected to be able to support the system to be able to correct the answers through hisessay, do a word search of the position of the right to the left position. This algorithm has aprinciple of good suffix (a character who sought similar characters aligned with) as well as theprinciple of bad character (characters that are not selected will be similar). Website developmente-learning uses the method Waterfall. To design this application used the method of structuraldesign i.e. making Entity Relationship (ER) and making Data Flow diagrams (DFD) fordesigning and documenting software systems based on the flow of data. In making this softwareusing PHP as a scripting language used to create Web page and MySQL database as a datastorage. Testing is done using Blackbox testing methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Shynkaruk ◽  
Alina Ulan ◽  
Anna Bondar ◽  
Olena Iakovenko ◽  
Serhii Strohanov ◽  
...  

Research purpose: To study the features of left-handed and right-handed fencers’ competitive activity, to justify the tendency of increasing the representation of left-handed fencers in the international sports arena and to substantiate the need to take into account the functional asymmetry of fencers in the initial stages of sports training. Material and Methods. 54 international competitions and 2,395 athletes were studied. The survey was attended by 25 coaches. The study of individual profiles of asymmetry involved 9 qualified fencers. During the research, the following methods were used: analysis of scientific and methodological literature and materials from the Internet, analysis of competition protocols and video analysis, sociological methods of research, pedagogical observation, pedagogical testing, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. Among the features of competitive activity of fencers with different leading extremities are: increase in the number of various attacks and counterattacks of the right-handed athletes and widespread use of complex and more varied technical and tactical actions, while the speed of performing techniques and actions can be reduced due to the lack of competitive practice with left-handed athletes; left-handed athletes’ widespread use of simple attacks without transference with high speed. The number of left-handed fencers from 2002-2003 to 2016-2017 sports seasons increased by 48 athletes. Today, they are between 12 and 42% in the first 50 world rankings. The largest number is in teams of Russia, Italy, the USA, and China. Of the 146 left-handed athletes, 45% (66 people) represent Russia, Italy, the USA, and China in the top ten. Cases of incorrect orientation of fencers’ training were identified. This determines the relevance of accounting for functional asymmetry at the initial stages of training. Conclusions. The features of duel between the fencers with dominant right and left extremities, tendency to increase the number of left-handed fencers in the international sports arena from 2002 to 2017 were determined. Fencers’ individual profiles of asymmetry were studied, cases of incorrect orientation of athletes’ training were identified.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubarak Albarka Umar

<p><i>Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software program to ensure that it performs its intended purpose. Software testing verifies the safety, reliability, and correct working of software. The growing need for quality software makes software testing a crucial stage in Software Development Lifecycle. There are many methods of testing software, however, the choice of method to test a given software remains a major problem in software testing. Although, it is often impossible to find all errors in software, employing the right combination of methods will make software testing efficient and successful. Knowing these software testing methods is the key to making the right selection. This paper presents a comprehensive study of software testing methods. An explanation of Testing Categories was presented first, followed by Testing Levels (and their comparison), then Testing Techniques (and their comparison). For each Testing Levels and Testing Techniques, examples of some testing types and their pros and cons were given with a brief explanation of some of the important testing types. Furthermore, a clear and distinguishable explanation of two confused and contradictory terms (Verification and Validation) and how they relate to Software Quality was provided.</i></p>


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon R. Lang ◽  
Martin H. Luerssen ◽  
David M. W. Powers

Interest point detectors are important components in a variety of computer vision systems. This paper demonstrates an automated virtual 3D environment for controlling and measuring detected interest points on 2D images in an accurate and rapid manner. Real-time affine transform tools enable easy implementation and full automation of complex scene evaluations without the time-cost of a manual setup. Nine detectors are tested and compared using evaluation and testing methods based on Schmid, Mohr, and Bauckhage (2000). Each detector is tested on the BSDS500 image set and 34 3D scanned, and manmade models using rotation in the X, Y, and Z axis as well as scale in the X,Y axis. Varying degrees of noise on the models are also tested. Results demonstrate the differing performance and behaviour of each detector across the evaluated transformations, which may assist computer vision practitioners in choosing the right detector for their application.


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