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MITS5002

Software Engineering Methodology

MITS5002

Software Engineering Methodology

Assignment 1 and 2

Presentation and Research Report

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NOTE: This Document is used in conjunction with Assessment 1 [Presentation & participation]

and Assessment 2 [Research Report] in the Teaching and Assessment Plan document

[MITS55002_Teaching and Assessment Plan.doc]

Objective(s)

This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes as in the unit descriptor. This

assessment is designed to improve student presentation skills and to give students experience in

researching a topic and writing a report relevant to the Unit of Study subject matter.

INSTRUCTIONS

These instructions apply to both Assignment 1 – Presentation and Assignment 2 Research

Report.

Assignment 1 – Presentation and Participation – 10% (Sessions 5-12) Individual Assignment

For this component you will be required to do a 5-10 minute presentation on a recent academic

paper on a topic related to Software Engineering or Software Engineering Methodologies. Some

possible topic areas include but are not limited to:

• Software Engineering for Data Warehouse systems

• Risk Analysis in Software Engineering

• Project Management methodologies

• Advances in Prototyping for software engineering

• Cleanroom methodology

• Test Driven methodologies

• Advanced human Interfaces

• Artificial Neural Networks (applied to software engineering)

• Cloud Computing (in relation to software engineering)

• Agent Oriented Software Engineering

The paper you select must be directly relevant to one of the above topics or another topic and

be related to Software Engineering. The paper must be approved by your lecturer and be related

to what we are studying this semester in Software Engineering. The paper can be from any

academic conference or other relevant Journal or online sources such as Google Scholar,

Academic department repositories, or a significant commercial company involved in research

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such as IBM etc. All students must select a different paper. Thus, the paper must be approved

by your lecturer before proceeding. In case two students are wanting to present on the same

paper, the first who emails the lecturer with their choice will be allocated that paper. Please note

that popular magazine or web-site articles are not academic papers.

A grade of 10% of the Units mark will be awarded for your presentation and your participation in

other student presentations. You are to prepare a set of powerpoint slides for your presentation.

If you do not participate in at least 70% of other student’s presentations you will forfeit a

significant proportion of the marks for this component.

Note: if class numbers are large the presentations may be organized into groups, but students

will still all need to select their own individual paper for assignment 2. In the case where

presentations are arranged in groups each group can decide which students paper will be used

for the presentation.

The presentations will occur in sessions 5-12 on the academic calendar for the semester and the

order of presentations will be by arrangement, but these will be evenly spread over those

sessions.

What to Submit.

There is no submission for this component, you are allocated marks based on your

presentation and participation

Assignment 2 – Research Report – 10% (Due Session 8) Individual Assignment

For this component you will write a report or critique on the paper you chose from Assignment

1, the Presentation and Participation component above.

Your report should be limited to approx. 1500 words (not including references). Use 1.5 spacing

with a 12 point Times New Roman font. Though your paper will largely be based on the chosen

article, you should use other sources to support your discussion or the chosen papers premises.

Citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the IEEE style.

Your report or critique must include:

Title Page: The title of the assessment, the name of the paper you are reporting on and its

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authors, and your name and student ID.

Introduction: Identification of the paper you are critiquing/ reviewing, a statement of the

purpose for your report and a brief outline of how you will discuss the selected article (one or

two paragraphs).

Body of Report: Describe the intention and content of the article. If it is a research report,

discuss the research method (survey, case study, observation, experiment, or other method)

and findings. Comment on problems or issues highlighted by the authors. Report on results

discussed and discuss the conclusions of the article and how they are relevant to the topics of

this Unit of Study.

Conclusion: A summary of the points you have made in the body of the paper. The conclusion

should not introduce any ‘new’ material that was not discussed in the body of the paper. (One

or two paragraphs)