type:: [[REVIEWS]]
full-title:: A Visual Notation for Succinct Program Traces
title:: COLA-D-22-00029_reviewer
date:: [[07-12-2022]] - 19:08
status:: [[DONE]]
venue:: [[COLA]]
year:: 2022
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	- I thank the reviewer for the refined version of the paper, especially for the added information about the implemented web-based GUI of the proposed approach. In my opinion, the following actions need to be done before the acceptance of the paper:
		- I thank the authors again for the tool available at http://tracr.engr.oregonstate.edu/; however, further than referring to the whole document available at https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_projects/9306t607n I suggest to write a short HOWTO to explain potentially interested readers to play with the tool on an illustrative example.
		- I would smooth all the statements like "user can **effectively** and **quickly** transform traces..." because they have not been evaluated. I can understand that doing a user study can be a lot of work; thus, I recommend smoothing statements that have not been evaluated.
	- As a very minor remark, when doing journal revisions, I recommend marking in different colours paper additions or changes, so that the reviewer does not have to do manual diffs to focus on the changed parts of the revised paper.
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