Internal evaluation

Definition

According to White 2000, internal evaluation occurs on continual or periodic bases in the course of research and development. Internal evaluations test whether, for example, the components of an experimental prototype or pre- release system work as they are intended.

This type of evaluation mainly concerns functionality and needs to show coverage of the fundamental contrastive phenomena of the language pair, just like feasibility evaluation. However, at this point in a system's life cycle, it must also be shown that the system is actually improving as a result of development (changeability), and that improvement in one area does not make something else worse (stability). (In terms of EAGLES 1996, this is a progress evaluation).

Relevant qualities - from part 2

Translation process models (2.1.1/402)

Coverage (2.2.1.1.2.1/504)

Readability (2.2.1.1.1.1/172)

Terminology (2.2.1.2.3/175)

Accuracy (2.2.1.2/177)

Well-formedness (2.2.1.3/186)

Stakeholders

Developers. Sponsors. Development managers.

References

White 2000

Reeder dissertation (forthcoming)

King 1990

Notes

Diagnostic evaluation is arguably a subset of the internal evaluations; however, segregating the diagnostic needs at the same level as internal does improve the distinction between iterative progress tests and tests to find a specific problem.