Research Seminar in Software Engineering 2024/25 fall

Seminar Milestones and Submissions:

• 22-Sep-2024: MSc topic and supervisor confirmed (I will contact supervisors and validate the information provided; supervisors must be from the Chair of Software Engineering).
  • Please also indicate what type of research your thesis will contain. 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. Give one or two sentences of explanation/support for your classification. Choose the type of thesis from here:
    • Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research
    • GitHub link: https://acmsigsoft.github.io/EmpiricalStandards/form_generator/Checklist.html?role=author
  • Submit here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (->T1)
  • List of students & topics & supervisors --> see Moodle
  • Submit here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (->T1)
• 25-Sep-2024: Last possibility to withdraw from the seminar (without going through the Dean's office)
• 14-Oct-2024: 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
• 04-Nov-2024: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 06-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-Nov06)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3slides-Nov06)
• 06-Nov-2024: Feedback on presentation (for presentations on 06-Nov-2024)
  • 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
• 11-Nov-2024: 2nd draft of report + presentation slides (for presenters on 13-Nov-2023)
  • Expected contents: see above (04-Nov-2024)
  • Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3report-Nov13)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3slides-Nov13)
• 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)
  • Expected contents: see above (06-Nov-2023)
  • Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3report-Nov22)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3slides-Nov22)
• 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)
  • Expected contents: see above (06-Nov-2023)
  • Submit report here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3report-Nov29)
  • Submit slides here -- make sure to select the correct submission option (T3slides-Nov29)
• 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/2024/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)