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Final Year Project Template

BS Software Engineering

Department of Software Engineering

Capital University of Science and Technology,

Islamabad

Final Year Project Template

Dear Students This guide is prepared to help the students in preparing their final year project reports. Report writing is one of the primary professional responsibility of a practising software engineer. The final report of any project is not just a formality. It is a primary product of the engineering efforts and is often the basis for evaluation of the software engineer’s professional abilities. The report is also a service to the software community who needs the information regarding that particular software. The report should stand on its own and it should include all the necessary sections, targeting at a reader who does not necessarily have any prior knowledge about the project or the technology involved in it. How to follow this guideline? The sections in italics of this format report are instructions that you are supposed to follow. The other sections are meant as information that will help you to meet the minimum requirement of the report. The first portion of this report elaborates on the generic issues involved in report writing such as intellectual property, plagiarism, formatting etc. Who is the Target Reader? The target audience of these project reports is bachelor level CS(SE) student who only has basic knowledge of the computer science field. You should therefore assume that the reader is someone who does not know anything about your project but who may refer your work in his or her own project. Your report should therefore include all the details about the ‘what?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’. To ensure the reports are easy to read with consistent format, it is very important that students follow the instructions while writing the report. You have taken several courses to improve your English writing skills during the BS(CS)/BS(SE) program. You are supposed to follow the elements and techniques you have learnt in those courses especially the knowledge you have gained in “Technical Report Writing” should be evident in all versions of your reports. 2

The focus of this project is on the sound software engineering

principles and functionality of the software you have produced. Your

project will be evaluated in terms of how well it meets the user

needs, how well is it tested and the user friendliness of the

interface.

● Research Project The objective of the research-oriented project is to solve a research problem. This may take the form of evaluating the effectiveness of existing solutions, modify existing solutions or developing a new solution to the problem. The focus of this project is on the sound experimental technique, and evaluating the solution thoroughly. You will do a background research into the domain are and develop a basis of your work. The success of your solution will be evaluated on the basis of understanding and use of experimental methods as well as evaluation methodology of your solution. You should discuss this question with your supervisor at the proposal defence stage of the project to decide whether your project is a research oriented or a development project. What is intellectual property? Intellectual Property is the term used to describe the outputs of creative endeavor in literary, artistic, industrial, scientific and engineering fields that can be protected under legislation. During the course of your project you may generate some novel work therefore it is necessary to understand the concept of intellectual Property. Plagiarism – What is it? a) Unauthorized act of copying/reproducing or attempt to copy an idea, writing or invention of another person b) Extraction of academic data which are the results of research undertaken by another person, such as findings of research, data obtained, whether published or unpublished, without giving due acknowledgement to the original source. c) Unauthorized translation of the writing of another person from one language to another whether wholly or partly. 4

What must be done to avoid plagiarism? a) Citation and references. Following are the main items that require citation. ● Direct quotes: phrases, sentences, or sections copied directly from a text; cite with quotation marks (use a limited amount of text, not a full text) Example : “Failure to reference appropriately will be considered unethical academic behavior and could result in allegations of misconduct.” [1] The [1] symbol at the end of the quote refers to the first entry in a list of references, as shown at the end of this template under a heading ‘references’. ● Paraphrased text: sections of your writing that are based on research (not common knowledge) but written in your own words (not in quotes ● Facts and Figures: numbers, percentages, and facts that have been collected by an exclusive source (such as during an experiment or poll) ● Theories, methods, and ideas : any original idea or thought that you find during your research and present in your writing ● Images, graphs, illustrations: always follow copyright rules when using images, including those you find online Paraphrased text, facts and figures, theories, methods and ideas, Images, graphs and illustrationsall should be referenced with symbols [ ] as shown in above example. In order to have an accurate record of what you have researched and therefore an accurate reference, it is important that you write down the details of your sources as you study. You should keep a complete list of references as presented in the last section of this report template. b) Be familiar in the area that you are talking about. By understanding the subject, you are more likely to write in your own words, rather than restate someone else's definition of this subject. Look for information on the topic you want to write about. This can be on the Internet or in books, although books are almost always more authoritative than the Internet. 5

● Use one side of the paper only. Headings: Specific Format and Style First-Level Headings Follow these guidelines for first-level headings: ● Capitalize each word of first level heading except preposition and article but if they appear as the first word of heading then capitalize them as well. ● Use Roman OR Arabic numerals with first-levels. ● Either underline the words but not the Roman/Arabic numeral, OR bold the entire heading including the numeral. ● Make first-levels centered on the page. ● Start a new page whenever you have a first-level heading. ● Begin first-levels on the standard first text line of a page. ● Leave 3 blank lines between first-levels and the first line of text. ● Use 18-font size. ● Use decimal numbering system for headings. Second-Level Headings Follow these guidelines for second-level headings: ● Capitalize each word in second-levels heading. ● Use 16-font size and bold. ● Make second-levels flush left. ● Leave 2 blank lines between previous text and second-levels. 7

● Leave 1 blank line between second-levels and the following text. Third-Level Headings Follow these guidelines for third-level headings: ● Make third-levels sentence-style. ● Use bold for third-levels. ● Do not make third-levels a grammatical part of sentences that follow. ● Use the standard spacing between paragraphs for paragraphs that contain third- levels. Page-Numbering Style ● All pages within the front and back covers are, but the page number is not always displayed. ● All pages coming before page 1 of the introduction use lowercase Roman numerals. ● All pages beginning with page 1 of the introduction use with Arabic numerals. ● Page numbers are not displayed on the transmittal letter, title page, and first page of the table of contents, page 1 of the introduction, and the appendix divider page. ● There are several choices of pagination style for the main-text pages: ● Center page numbers at the bottom (halfway between the last text line and the bottom edge of the paper). ● Place page numbers in the top right corner (on the right margin, halfway between the top text line and the top edge of the paper). Do not display page numbers on any page with a centered (first-level) heading (display it centered at the bottom). 8

Project Title v X. Name 1 (Reg1) Name2 (Reg2) Fall- Supervised By Supervisor Name 11

Supervisor’s Signature Note 1: This paper must be signed by your supervisor Note 2: The soft-copies of your project report, source codes, schematics, and executable should be delivered in a CD

APPROVAL CERTIFICATE

This project, entitled as “Menu Drive (Insert Your Project Title Here) ” has been approved for the award of

Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering

Committee Signatures: Supervisor: __________________________ (Mr.Qamar Uz Zaman) Project Coordinator: __________________________ 13

(Mr. Ibrar Arshad) Head of Department: __________________________ (Dr. Nadeem Anjum)

DECLARATION

I/We, hereby, declare that “No portion of the work referred to, in this project has been submitted in support of an application for another degree or qualification of this or any other university/institute or other institution of learning”. It is further declared thatthis undergraduate project, neither as a whole nor as a part thereof has been copied out from any sources, wherever references have been provided. MEMBERS’ SIGNATURES 14

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

It is usual to thank those individuals who have provided particularly useful assistance, technical or otherwise, during your project. Your supervisor will obviously be pleased to be acknowledged as he or she will have invested quite a lot of time overseeing your progress. 16

Executive Summary This should be not more than one page in length (200 words approx.). The summary should allow the reader who is unfamiliar with the work to gain a swift and accurate impression of what the project is about, how it arose and what has been achieved. It is recommended, you write this section when the report is finished. 19

Table of Contents

This should give a complete list of what the report contains starting with the abstract (the title page is not included in the contents list).

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Contents
• Chapter 1.........................................................................................................................
• Introduction......................................................................................................................
  • 1.1. Project Introduction............................................................................................
  • 1.2. Existing Examples / Solutions............................................................................
  • 1.3. Business Scope..................................................................................................
  • 1.4. Useful Tools and Technologies..........................................................................
  • 1.5. Project Work Break Down..................................................................................
  • 1.6. Project Time Line...............................................................................................
• Chapter 2.........................................................................................................................
• Requirement Specification and Analysis.........................................................................
  • Requirement Specification...........................................................................................
  • 2.1. Functional Requirements......................................................................................
  • 2.2. Non-Functional Requirements..............................................................................
  • 2.3. Selected Functional Requirements....................................................................
  • 2.4. System Use Case Modeling...............................................................................
  • 2.5. System Sequence diagrams..............................................................................
  • 2.6. Domain Model....................................................................................................
• Chapter 3.........................................................................................................................
• System Design.................................................................................................................