[PRE REVIEW]: The Causal Testing Framework

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Submitting author: @jmafoster1 (Michael Foster)
Repository: https://github.com/CITCOM-project/CausalTestingFramework
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Version: v9.0.2
Editor: @danielskatz
Reviewers: @akothen, @yinfangchen
Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1109/ICST57152.2023.00023 is OK
- 10.1145/3607184 is OK
- 10.1109/ICST60714.2024.00023 is OK
- 10.1109/QSIC.2007.4385527 is OK
- 10.2139/ssrn.4732706 is OK
- 10.1093/ije/dyw341 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: DoWhy-GCM: An Extension of DoWhy for Causal Infere...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Metamorphic testing: A new approach for generating...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Causal Inference: What if
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Causality
- No DOI given, and none found for title: DoWhy: An End-to-End Library for Causal Inference

❌ MISSING DOIs

- None

❌ INVALID DOIs

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   512	cwild-UoS
   202	Michael Foster
   142	AndrewC19
   141	Michael
    58	Richard Somers
    52	f-allian
    33	Andrew Clark
    32	Robert (Bob) Turner
    17	Farhad Allian
    16	bobturneruk
     6	[email protected]
     1	Michae Foster
     1	Richard

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1016

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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👋 @jmafoster1 - thanks for your submission. I'll assign myself to edit it.

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[jmafoster1]

@danielskatz, thanks for being our editor. Some potential reviewers could be the following (in no particular order):

From the list of people:

• Fabio Ashtar Telarico (FATelarico)
• Vincent Stimper VincentStimper
• Tom Edinburgh (tedinburgh)
• Alberto Previti (alberto743)

Others:

• Alastair Donaldson (afd)
• Seongmin Lee (nimgnoeseel)
• Roberto Pietrantuono (rpietrantuono)
• Julien Siebert (juliensiebert)
• Richard Torkar (torkar)
• Robert Feldt (robertfeldt)

I have included as many as possible as I know people are very busy.

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👋 @VincentStimper & @tedinburgh, would one or both of you be willing to review this submission for JOSS?

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👋 @afd & @juliensiebert & @torkar, would one or more of you be willing to review this submission for JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

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[torkar]

Sorry, about too much on my plate coming months.

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