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My MASc thesis for generating test cases in Drasil
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`subsubsection` formatting/lists in paper #77

Open samm82 opened 3 months ago

samm82 commented 3 months ago

As mentioned by @JacquesCarette in #74, "\subsubsection uses "1)" and enumerate does too, and at the exact same level of indent, which is confusing. I would probably not use \subsubsection for "Minor Discrepancies" at all, but paragraph at that level and then maybe use enumerate below? In any case, you need to experiment so this displays nicely." Also, "Rather than using itemize, which steals which a lot of space (by indenting), use \paragraph{} instead, i.e., \paragraph{Specification-based Testing} is defined as ..."

I personally like the lists, as they help break up what would otherwise be a large block of text into meaningful chunks. Unfortunately, the IEEE template doesn't support textbf, which makes it harder to really emphasize the specific focus of each chunk, but at the very least, I think the use of colons (as I had previously done) would help with this (i.e., \item Specification-based Testing: testing that …).

As for the formatting conflict in the Minor Discrepancies section, I turned all enumerations into itemizations. I think this makes sense; since I'm no longer including every discrepancy, so the numbers no longer reflect totals. We'll likely revisit this formatting for my thesis, potentially even creating custom labels for them, but I think this works well enough for now. Thoughts?

smiths commented 3 months ago

Yes, I think it works well enough for now. Maybe you already made some changes by the time I looked at the paper, but I thought it looked fine. There is a lot of text on each page, but that is the nature of the paper. (In the thesis we can break it up with more figures.)