RE: [xml-dev] Designing an experiment to gather evidence onapproaches to

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

Greg Hunt wrote:

> what is very interesting is the way that the discussion is being conducted 
> in IT terms - traceability and testing rather than in terms of hypotheses 
> and mental models.

Interesting! 

And absolutely correct. 

I desire to give scientific rigor to the problem of evaluating approaches to designing web services. 

Yet, I have not been taking the scientist's approach -- develop hypotheses and mental models.

Instead I have  been taking the IT approach -- compare lines of code, performance, etc.

Hmm, this is a paradigm shift for me. 

I need to rethink ...

Awesome wakeup call Greg. 

Thanks!

/Roger