Wang_FPSO

[mvdbrand]

The artefact description gives a concise but clear introduction into the problem domain and the relevance of the artefact. The raise of scientific computation applications has led to an increase in precision computations. This artefact deals with the analysis of software that contains precision-specific operations. The artefact is highly relevant and extremely usable. The artefact has a very detailed tutorial with instructions for a manual installation, next to that the artefact provides a virtual machine image. The tutorial also provides detailed information on re-running the experiments. The artefact also describes concisely how experiments can be tweaked. It may be advisable to reduce the number of references and use the obtained space to provide more details the integration and fixing.

I was unfortunately not able to do the installation myself because of incompatible hardware.

A few minor typos: later in Section 2 should be latter and turotial in Section 6 should be tutorial. I would classify this artefact as: ? maybe diamond

[agurfinkel]

The artifact consists of a package to reproduce the experiments in the corresponding paper. The artifacts includes all the necessary packages, an optional virtual machine image with dependencies installed, and a tutorial providing step-by-step instructions to reproduce the experiments and to use the tool.

The artifact is necessary to reproduce the experiments and contains sufficient amount of detail to do so.

I was unable to install the Virtual Machine. I suspect that the authors' require VMWare and I was using VirtualBox. While the virtual appliance format is interchangeable, I got an error message while importing the machine.

[brusso123]

Dear authors,

the artefact is potentially insightful, useful, and usable and deserves to be catalogued. In terms of applicability, it is might be limited to a niche of programs and therefore might target a specific type of developers.

The installation might result a bit hard as there are many dependencies to care of and configure, but a VM image is provided in OneDrive (is it temporary?) and a good tutorial is provided with the description. The tool and its documentation is available in github and OneDrive. The tool is not easily applicable to other subjects by authors' self admission in the github totorial "Using more subjects".

Barbara

[timm]

Note these labels are still "under discussion" and are still subject to change prior to the final notifications Friday.

[floatfeather]

Sorry for the late reply! Thank you for all the comments. @mvdbrand and @agurfinkel , do you still have problems in installing the VM image? Could you please show me the error message?

@brusso123 , the size of the VM image is smaller than 5G, which is able to be stored in OneDrive permanently.

[agurfinkel]

While importing the appliance with VirtualBox I get error VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR with a message Host resource of type "Other Storage Device (20)" is supported with SATA AHCI controllers only, line 47

[floatfeather]

@agurfinkel, I have just succeeded in importing the VM image into VirtualBox (version 5.0.24, mac). We indeed created the VM image with VMWare. I guess a newer version of VirtualBox may help？

[agurfinkel]

@floatfeather, thank you. Indeed installing new VirtualBox have solved the problem. I was able to start the virtual machine and run the experiments.