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The document provides guidelines for preparing a project report for the X semester Master of Software Engineering program. It outlines the formatting requirements including using A4 size paper, Times New Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, and other structural elements like chapters to include, order of elements, and required front pages. Specific instructions are provided for formatting headings, figures, tables, and references in the report.

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Ms Software X Sem Project Document

The document provides guidelines for preparing a project report for the X semester Master of Software Engineering program. It outlines the formatting requirements including using A4 size paper, Times New Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, and other structural elements like chapters to include, order of elements, and required front pages. Specific instructions are provided for formatting headings, figures, tables, and references in the report.

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Guidelines for Preparation of Project Report_X Sem MS(SE)

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VIT
UNIVERSITY
(Estd. u/s 3 of UGC Act 1956)

School of Information Technology & Engineering [SITE]

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DIVISION X SEMESTER M.S.(SOFTWARE ENGINEERING) GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF PROJECT REPORT
General Instructions: 1. Draft Report should be prepared according to the prescribed editing specification and it should be to the final phase of the documentation. 2. The drafted report should be checked and approved by the guide before preparing the original project report. 3. Apart from individual Copies, 2 Copies of the Project Report should be submitted ( One each for the Guide and Department Library) 4. Final report is to be on A4 size bond paper with 1.5 line spacing without border and all the documentation work should be carried out in Times New Roman font only. 5. It should be uniformly a SOFTBOUND VOLUME with the WRAPPER made of White color ART PAPER. 6. Minimum Number of pages in the report 75. Maximum number of pages of the report - 125. 7. Figures/Relevant information must be placed just after the page where they are referred. 8. Drawings of larger size must be placed at the end of the report. 9. Main heading inside a chapter should be in CAPITALS and the Sub headings should be in Title case letters with underscore.

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10. All the pages from the introduction chapter must be numbered serially and the numbers must be placed at the top right corner of the page. All other preceding pages (items 5-9 referred in project format page) should be given in all Roman Numbers.

11. Spacing details: Headings Capital letters Font Size 14 in Times New Roman (Bold) Subheadings - Title case - Font Size 14 in Times New Roman (Bold) Gap between Heading & paragraph 3 Spaces of width (each 10 pt in Times New Roman) Gap between Heading & Subheading - 2 Spaces of width (each 10 pt in Times New Roman) Gap between Subheadings 2 Spaces of width (each 10 pt in Times New Roman) Gap between Subheading & paragraph -2 Spaces of width (each 10 pt in Times New Roman) 12. Font Size of the running text material in the report (other than headings, subheadings etc) 12 in Times New Roman (Normal) 1.5 Line spacing Justified. 13. Subheadings Should be preceded by proper Index e.g: 1.1 Subheading 1.1.1 sub topic 1 1.1.2 sub topic 2 etc 14. Figures should be named as Fig. 1.1 <Fig Name> & it should be placed at the bottom of the figure. 15. Tables should be named as Table 1.1 <Table Name> & it should be placed at the top of the Table. 16. The notations used should be consistent throughout the project report and its explanation must be given in the Nomenclature.

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FORMAT OF THE REPORT


(Editing Specification) 1. 2. 3. 4.

Front page (Specimen enclosed) Declaration by the Candidate(Specimen enclosed) Bonafide Certificate(Specimen enclosed) Industry Certificate (Not applicable for in-house projects)

4. Acknowledgment 5. Contents 6. Synopsis 7. List of Tables 8. List of Figures 9. Nomenclature 10. Body of the report Margin Specifications Top 4cm Bottom 3cm Left 4.5cms Right 2.5cms

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Chapters of the Project report: specific format The number of Chapters in the body of the report may vary depending on the type of the project. While grouping the chapters, the following points must be taken in to account. Note that the documentation should consist the following:
1.

Introduction of the project (Include problem definition , goals and objectives, application, Hardware / Software configurations etc)

2. Analysis of the problem (feasibility study, modeling techniques used, requirements specification , Current status, etc) 3. Architecture of the proposed system. 4. Design (High level, Low level (Module wise), User Interface Design etc, use of DFD, STD, UML diagrams etc) 5. Implementation with test results (Module-wise implementation with process specifications and sample Screen snapshots etc) and Testing of the system( Strategies & Methods adopted, test cases, test results etc) 6. User Manual, operational manual (only if needed) etc. 7. Conclusion and Future Enhancements. 8. Appendix (if any) 9. References The references should be quoted then and there in the running material of the report like [1] etc and all the references should be indicated in numerical order at the end of the report. Sample: 1. 2. <Author Names>, <Paper Title>, <Name of Journal>, Vol <No>, <Month> < year>, pp <page no from-to>. <Author Names>, <Title of the Book>, <Publisher Name>, <year of publishing>.

NOTE: The project should be documented only based on the original contribution of the Student towards the project.

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