Seminar Milestones and Submissions:
- 19-Sep-2022: MSc topic and supervisor confirmed (required is either an e-mail from the supervisor to dietmar.pfahl@ut.ee or a direct Slack message from the student showing evidence that the supervisor has agreed to supervise the student on the specified topic)
- List of students & topics & supervisors (Status: 19-Sep-2022 at 18:00)
- 21-Sep-2022: Last possibility to withdraw from the seminar (without going through the Dean's office)
- 26-Sep-2022: Classification of thesis topic
- In case you do not know what type of thesis you have and also your supervisor cannot tell you, please consult slides 7-19 of the introductory session. In your submission, say what type your thesis is and give one or two sentences of explanation/support for your classification. Choose the type of thesis from here:
- Submit here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T1)
- 17-Oct-2022: 1st draft of report
- Expected contents (mandatory):
- Statement of goals that shall be achieved (What results will be delivered? / What problems will be solved?)
- Motivation: why is it interesting/important to achieve the stated goals?
- List of criteria that will be used to decide whether you have achieved the stated goals
- Description of starting situation
- Additional content (optional)
- Description of process/method how you will achieve your goals
- Format: You must use the MSc thesis template
- The MSc thesis template can be found here (Word and TeX templates)
- Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T2) -- Submission must be a PDF file
- Links to examples of short work-in-progress publications at major SE conferences/workshops (2-4 pages):
- Expected contents (mandatory):
- 14-Nov-2022: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 16-Nov-2022)
- Expected contents of report (mandatory):
- Statement of goals that shall be achieved (What results will be delivered? / What problems will be solved?)
- Motivation: why is it interesting/important to achieve the stated goals?
- List of criteria that will be used to decide whether you have achieved the stated goals
- Description of starting situation
- Description of process/method how you will achieve your goals
- Additional content of report (optional)
- Description of first results
- Expected contents of presentation (mandatory):
- Cover slide with name of student, name(s) of supervisor(s), topic/title
- Slides 1-2: Motivation & Baseline situation (starting point of your thesis)
- Slide 3: Goals || Research Questions || Expected Results (it's up to you, which of the three you present -- all have roughly the same meaning)
- Slides 4-6: Method (= Process how you will: achieve the goals || answer the RQs || produce the expected results))
- Slide 7: Related work / alternative solutions; basically, here you say what is different / new in your thesis
- Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3A-Nov22)
- Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3B-Nov22)
- Expected contents of report (mandatory):
- 16-Nov-2022: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 16-Nov-2022)
- Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Nov24)
- Link to feedback form: template-16Nov2022 (shows evaluation criteria)
- Use the presentation scoring rubric as reference; you find the link to the PDF of the scoring rubric under Assessment criteria of the seminar here: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2022/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 28-Nov-2022: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 30-Nov-2022)
- 30-Nov-2022: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 30-Nov-2022)
- Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Dec01)
- Link to feedback form: template-30Nov2022 (shows evaluation criteria)
- Use the presentation scoring rubric as reference; you find the link to the PDF of the scoring rubric under Assessment criteria of the seminar here: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2022/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 05-Dec-2022: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 07-Dec-2022)
- 07-Dec-2022: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 07-Dec-2022)
- Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Dec01)
- Link to feedback form: template-07Dec2022 (shows evaluation criteria)
- Use the presentation scoring rubric as reference; you find the link to the PDF of the scoring rubric under Assessment criteria of the seminar here: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2022/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 12-Dec-2022: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 14-Dec-2022)
- 14-Dec-2022: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 14-Dec-2022)
- Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Dec01)
- Link to feedback form: template-14Dec2022 (shows evaluation criteria)
- Use the presentation scoring rubric as reference; you find the link to the PDF of the scoring rubric under Assessment criteria of the seminar here: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2022/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 19-Dec-2022: Final report submission
- Expected contents: see above (14-Nov-2022)
- Submit final report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T4)