A Generic Project Report Skeleton

1. Introduction
This is a general introduction to what the project is all about and also about the research
area it is not just a description of the contents of each section. Briefly summarize the
question (you will be stating the question in detail later), some of the reasons why it is a
worthwhile question, and perhaps give an overview of your main results. This is a birdseye view of the answers to the main questions answered in the project. A brief section
giving background information may be necessary, especially if your work spans two or
more traditional fields. That means that your readers may not have any experience with
some of the material needed to follow your project, so you need to give it to them. A
different title than that given above is usually better; e.g., "A Brief Review of Mutation
Testing."
2. Review of the State of the Art / Literature Review
Here you review the state of the art relevant to your project. Again, a different title is
probably appropriate; e.g., "State of the Art in Mutation Testing." The idea is to present
(critical analysis comes a little bit later) the major ideas in the state of the art right up to,
but not including, your own personal brilliant ideas. You organize this section by idea,
and not by author or by publication.
4. Research Question or Problem Statement
Engineering theses tend to refer to a "problem" to be solved where other disciplines talk
in terms of a "question" to be answered. In either case, this section has three main parts:
1. A Gap Analysis between the existing work with the desired/ targeted work
2. A concise statement of the problem that your project tackles
3. Justification, by direct reference to section 3, that your question is previously
unanswered
4. Discussion of why it is worthwhile to answer this question.
Item 3 above is where you analyze the information which you presented in Section 3. For
example, maybe your problem is to "Developing Mutation Test Cases Using GAs " (you
would further describe what you mean by "Mutation Test Cases" and "Criteria to Kill
Mutants" in the problem statement). Now in your analysis of the state of the art you
would show how each class of current approaches fails (i.e. can handle only small
problems, or takes too much time).
Since this is one of the sections that the readers are definitely looking for, highlight it by
using the word "problem" or "question" in the title: e.g. "Research Question" or "Problem
Statement".

4. Describing How You Solved the Problem or Answered the Question

This part of the project is much more free form. It may have one or several sections and
subsections. But it all has only one purpose: to convince the examiners that you answered
the question or solved the problem that you set for yourself in Section 4. So show what
you did that is relevant to answering the question or solving the problem. This section of
project report should mainly deal with Design and Implementation of the research
problem.
5. Testing & Results
This part of the project is to mainly discuss about the testing done on the implementation
of your research problem and also show the result derived from it .
6. Conclusions
You generally cover three things in the Conclusions section, and each of these usually
merits a separate subsection:
1. Conclusions
2. Summary of Contributions
3. Future Research
Conclusions are not a rambling summary of the project: they are short, concise
statements of the inferences that you have made because of your work. It helps to
organize these as short numbered paragraphs, ordered from most to least important. All
conclusions should be directly related to the research question stated in Section 4.
Examples:
1. The problem stated in Section 4 has been solved: as shown in Sections? to ??,
an algorithm capable of handling Test Case Generation problem in reasonable
time has been developed.
2. The principal mechanism needed to improve the Mutation Testing using GAs.
3. Etc.
The Summary of Contributions will be much sought and carefully read by the examiners.
Here you list the contributions of new knowledge that your project makes. Of course, the
project itself must substantiate any claims made here. There is often some overlap with
the Conclusions, but that's okay. Concise numbered paragraphs are again best. Organize
from most to least important. Examples:
1. Developed a much quicker algorithm.
2. Demonstrated the first use.

3. Etc.
The Future Research subsection is included so that researchers picking up this work in
future have the benefit of the ideas that you generated while you were working on the
project. Again, concise numbered paragraphs are usually best.
References
The list of references is closely tied to the review of the state of the art given in section 3.
Most examiners scan your list of references looking for the important works in the field,
so make sure they are listed and referred to in section 3. All references given must be
referred to in the main body of the project. Note the difference from a Bibliography,
which may include works that are not directly referenced in the project. Organize the list
of references either alphabetically by author surname (preferred), or by order of citation
in the project.
Appendices
What goes in the appendices? Any material which impedes the smooth development of
your presentation, but which is important to justify the results of a project. Generally it is
material that is of too nitty-gritty a level of detail for inclusion in the main body of the
project, but which should be available for perusal by the examiners to convince them
sufficiently. Examples include immense tables of data, lengthy mathematical proofs or
derivations, etc.

Reference:
1. http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/Instructions-thesis.html (Chapter Structure)
2. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/grad/docs/ThesisGuide/manual.html (Documents
required)
3. http://www.cs.fit.edu/wds/guides/howto/ (An Outline For Each Chapter)
4. http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html (How to Organize your
Thesis)
Few Example to how to write references

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2.

S. Grinstein, J.Huth, J.Schopf. Resource Predictors in HEP Applications.

Computing in High Energy Physics,Interlaken, Switzerland, Sep. 2004. pp. 69.
R. Braun, H. Siegel, N. Beck, L. Boloni, M. Maheswaran, A. Reuther, J.
Robertson, M. Theys, B. Yao, D. Hensgen and R. Freund, A Comparison of
Eleven Static Heuristics for Mapping a Class of Independent Tasks onto
Heterogeneous DistributedComputing Systems, in J. of Parallel and Distributed
Computing, vol.61, No. 6, pp.810-837, 2001.

3. Project Formatting Guidelines

1. Type Style and Spacing: Same type style and font should be used throughout the
project and should be justified. All printing should be single side. As per
following specifications:
Font Times New Roman
Chapter Title 16 Bold
Heading 14 Bold (1.1, 1.2 etc), Subheading 12 Bold (1.1.1, 1.2.2 etc)
Body Font Size 12
Line Spacing 1.5 lines
Margins Top, Bottom & Right 1 Inch each and Left 1.5 Inch (Including
Binding)
Page Size Standard A4
2. Parts of project:
a. Title on hard cover
b. Same Title on 1st page
c. Certificate
d. Acknowledgement
e. Abstract
f. Table of Contents
g. List of Figures (If Any)
h. List of Tables (If Any)
Note: From certificate till list of tables all page numbers should be in romans
(i, ii. etc). Page number 1 should start from Chapter 1.
Note: For the project report being submitted during April-May 2015, color of the cover is
Black
Black

TITLE OF THE PROJECT

Project Work
submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of degree of
Bachelor of Technology
in
Computer Science & Engineering

Submitted By
Name of the Candidate
(Enroll. No.)

Under the supervision of

Name of the Supervisor
Designation

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY
GREATER NOIDA 201306
MAY 2015

Certificate
I hereby certify that the work which is being presented in the project entitled, Software
Engineering, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of
Bachelor in Technology in Computer Science and Engineering submitted in School of
Computing Science and Engineering of Galgotias University, Gr. Noida, is an authentic
record of my own work carried out under the supervision of Name of supervisor and
refers other researchers works which are duly listed in the reference section.
The matter presented in this project has not been submitted for the award of any other
degree of this or any other university.

(Name of Candidate)
This is to certify that the above statement made by the candidate is correct and true to the
best of my knowledge.

(Name of Supervisor)
School of Computing Science and Engineering
Galgotias University
Gr. Noida

Countersigned by

(Dr. Parma Nand)

Professor & Dean
School of Computing Science & Engineering
Galgotias University
Gr. Noida

(Sibaram Khara)
Dean (Academics)
Galgotias University
Gr. Noida