Chapter 4 of 9 · 4 practices · 3 min · 4-question quiz
Testing, evaluation and results
This is where you show the project works and how well. Test against your objectives, report numbers with their conditions and only conclude what your evidence supports.
Start: Trace every objective to a test and a result4 practices in this chapter
- 1Trace every objective to a test and a resultThe committee judges you against the objectives you set in the proposal. Make that comparison easy with a traceability table: Then describe the testing itself: unit and integration tests, test cases…
- 2Report every number with the conditions that produced itA number without its conditions cannot be checked. "95% accuracy" means little until the reader knows the dataset, the split, the baseline and the metric.
- 3Draw only the conclusions your results supportThe FAST handbook warns that authors are often tempted to speculate on outcomes the findings cannot support, and says: "Do not draw any conclusions or make any recommendations that your work cannot…
- 4Write a clear limitations sectionEvery project has limitations. Writing them yourself shows understanding; having an examiner find them first looks like you missed them.
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