Research Seminar in Software Engineering 2020/21 fall

Seminar Milestones:

• 21-Sep-2020: MSc topic and supervisor confirmed (e-mail from supervisor to dietmar.pfahl@ut.ee required)
  • List of students & topics & supervisors (final)
• 24-Sep-2020: Last possibility to withdraw from the seminar (without going through the Dean's office)
• 28-Sep-2020: Classification of thesis topic
  • Submit here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T1)
• 19-Oct-2020: 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):
    • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9054844
    • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9054833
• 23-Nov-2020: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 25-Nov-2020)
  • 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-Nov23)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3B-Nov23)
• 25-Nov-2020: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 25-Nov-2020)
  • Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Nov25)
  • Link to feedback template (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/2020/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
• 30-Nov-2020: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 02-Dec-2020)
  • Expected contents: see above (23-Nov-2020)
  • Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3A-Nov30)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3B-Nov30)
• 02-Dec-2020: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 02-Dec-2020)
  • Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Dec02)
  • Link to feedback template (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/2020/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
• 07-Dec-2020: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 09-Dec-2020)
  • Expected contents: see above (23-Nov-2020)
  • Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3A-Dec07)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3B-Dec07)
• 09-Dec-2020: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 09-Dec-2020)
  • Submit feedback report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3C-Dec09)
  • Link to feedback template (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/2020/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
• 23-Dec-2020: Final report submission
  • Expected contents: see above (23-Nov-2020)
  • Submit final report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T4)