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\chapter{Requirements and Guidelines}
\label{chap:reqguide}
This chapter details some requirements and guidelines for MSc theses
submitted to the Software Engineering Research Group.
\section{Requirements}
\subsection{Layout}
\begin{itemize}
\item Your thesis should contain the formal title pages included in
this document (the page with the TU Delft logo and the one that
contains the abstract, student id and thesis committee). Usually
there is also a cover page containing the thesis title and the
author (this document has one) but this can be omitted if desired.
\item Base font should be an 11 point serif font (such as Times, New
Century Schoolbook or Computer Modern). Do not use sans-serif fonts
such as Arial or Helvetica. \textsl{Sans-serif type is intrinsically
less legible than seriffed type} \cite{Whe95}.
\item The final thesis and drafts submitted for reviewing should be
printed double-sided on A4 paper.
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Content}
\begin{itemize}
\item The thesis should contain the following chapters:
\begin{itemize}
\item Introduction.
Describes project context, goals and your research question(s). In
addition it contains an overview of how (the remainder of) your
thesis is structured.
\item One or (usually) more ``main'' chapters.
Present your work, the experiments conducted, tool(s) developed,
case study performed, etc.
\item Overview of Related Work
Discusses scientific literature related to your work and describes
how those approaches differ from what you did.
\item Discussion/Evaluation/Reflection
What went well, what went less well, what can be improved?
\item Conclusions, Contributions, and (Recommendations for) Future Work
\item Bibliography
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Bibliography}
\begin{itemize}
\item Make sure you've included all required data such as journal,
conference, publisher, editor and page-numbers. When you're using
\textsc{Bib}\TeX{}, this means that it won't complain when running
\texttt{bibtex your-main-tex-file}.
\item Make sure you use proper bibliographic references. This
especially means that you should avoid references that \textbf{only}
point at a website and not at a printed publication.
For example, it's OK to add a URL with the entry for an article
describing a tool to point at its homepage, but it's not OK to just
use the URL and not mention the article.
\end{itemize}
\section{Guidelines}
\begin{itemize}
\item The main chapters of a typical thesis contain approximately 50
pages.
\item A typical thesis contains approximately 50 bibliographic
references.
\item Make sure your thesis structure is balanced (check this in the
table of contents).
Typically the main chapters should be of equal length. If they aren't,
you might want to revise your structure by merging or splitting some
chapters/sections.
In addition, the (sub)section hierarchies with the chapters should
typically be balanced and of similar depth. If one or more are much
deeper nested than others in the same chapter this generally signals
structuring problems.
\item Whenever you submit a draft of your thesis to your supervisor
for reviewing, make sure that you have checked the spelling and
grammar. Moreover, \emph{read it yourself at least once from start
to end, before submitting to your supervisor}.
\textbf{Your supervisor is not a spelling/grammar checker!}
\item Whenever you submit a second draft, include a short text which
describes the changes w.r.t. the previous version.
\end{itemize}