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Geoffrey Challen
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certainty.tex
maybe.tex
@@ -112,20 +112,20 @@ only change when the developer expects them to.
 \subsubsection{Simulation or emulation}
 Pre-deployment simulation or emulation may provide a way to efficiently
-assess \texttt{maybe} statements without involving users. Building simulation
-environments that accurately reflect all of the uncertainties inherent to
-mobile systems programming, however, is difficult. To complicate matters,
-\texttt{maybe} alternatives may depend on details of user interaction that
-are difficult to know \textit{a priori}, particularly when new apps or
-functionalities are being investigated. So in most cases we believe
-post-deployment testing will be required.
+evaluate \texttt{maybe} statements without involving users. Building
+simulation environments that accurately reflect all of the uncertainties
+inherent to mobile systems programming, however, is difficult. To complicate
+matters, \texttt{maybe} alternatives may depend on details of user
+interaction that are difficult to know \textit{a priori}, particularly when
+new apps or functionalities are being investigated. So in most cases we
+believe post-deployment testing will be required.
 However, pre-deployment testing may still be a valuable approach,
 particularly when a large number of \texttt{maybe} statements are being used.
 Since this can explode the adaptation space, simulations may be able to help
 guide the developer's choices of which \texttt{maybe} statements may have a
-significant impact on performance and should be assessed first. Other
-\texttt{maybe} statements can be assessed later or eliminated.
+significant impact on performance and should be evaluated first. Other
+\texttt{maybe} statements can be evaluated later or eliminated.
 \subsubsection{Split testing}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Figure~\ref{fig-maybeexamples} shows several extensions of the \texttt{maybe}
 statement providing syntactic sugar. \texttt{maybe} function annotations
 allow uncertainty to be expressed at the function level, with the
 alternatives consisting of multiple function definitions with identical
-signatures. Finally, \texttt{maybe} blocks that require custom evaluation
+signatures. Finally, \texttt{maybe} statements that require custom evaluation
 logic can include an \texttt{evaluate} block as shown in the final example.
 \texttt{evaluate} blocks provide app-specific \textit{a posteriori} logic to
 evaluate the selected alternative. The \texttt{evaluate} block must return a