Seminar Milestones and Submissions:
- 24-Sep-2023: 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 --> see Moodle
- 27-Sep-2023: 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)
- 27-Sep-2023: Last possibility to withdraw from the seminar (without going through the Dean's office)
- 16-Oct-2023: 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):
- 06-Nov-2023: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 08-Nov-2023)
- 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 (T3report-Nov08)
- Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3slides-Nov08)
- Expected contents of report (mandatory):
- 08-Nov-2023: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 08-Nov-2023)
- Submit feedback report in Moodle (closely follow the instructions given there)
- 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/2023/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 13-Nov-2023: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 15-Nov-2023)
- 15-Nov-2023: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 15-Nov-2023)
- Submit feedback report in Moodle (closely follow the instructions given there)
- 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/2023/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 20-Nov-2023: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 22-Nov-2023)
- 22-Nov-2023: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 22-Nov-2023)
- Submit feedback report in Moodle (closely follow the instructions given there)
- 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/2023/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 27-Nov-2023: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 29-Nov-2023)
- 29-Nov-2023: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 29-Nov-2023)
- Submit feedback report in Moodle (closely follow the instructions given there)
- 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/2023/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 04-Dec-2023: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 06-Dec-2023)
- 06-Dec-2023: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 06-Dec-2023)
- Submit feedback report in Moodle (closely follow the instructions given there)
- 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/2023/ResSemSE/fall/Main/Assignments
- 21-Dec-2023: Final report submission
- Expected contents: see above (06-Nov-2023)
- Submit final report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T4)